Bart Klem

Bart Klem is an Associate Professor in Peace and Development Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He completed a PhD in political Geography at the University Zurich. He worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne before coming to Gothenburg. Bart conducts fieldwork-based research on the lived social and political realities of societies undergoing conflict and civil war. Most of his work has focused on Sri Lanka (his monograph Performing Sovereign Relations appeared with Cambridge UP in 2024). He currently works on question of citizenship, legal identity and mobility in the de facto state of Northern Cyprus.