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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, November 13, 2024 10:00 am to 
 12:00 pm \n 348 \n Highland Hall \n 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON
  M1C 3A8 \n\nSpeakers \nFerda Nur Demirci, CE Writing Fellow \n\nDescript
 ion: \nFerda Demirci is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Ant
 hropology at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral project, 'Rescaling 
 Family and Intimacy via Indebtedness in the Soma Coal Basin,' explores th
 e simultaneous intensification of two distinct forms of extractivism in So
 ma: lignite coal and financial value extracted from the household frontier
 . A lignite-coal basin located in the Aegean region of Turkey, Soma has u
 ndergone a transformation from an agriculturalist community to a predomina
 ntly miner town in only two decades. The 'stable' wages earned by minework
 ers provide access to easy consumer loans that one can take out immediatel
 y, with regular salary serving as the sole required collateral for bank c
 redits due to easy regulations devised as a part of ongoing national finan
 cial inclusion policies. Her research introduces 'indebtedness' as a novel
  analytical lens, emphasizing moral-transactional dimensions of monetary 
 indebtedness within gender and kinship obligations. This intertwining of d
 ebt with familial obligations has reshaped gender and kinship norms among 
 the agriculturalist-turned-miner community of Soma, creating what she ter
 ms a debt-laden intimacy regime. Exploring the moral economy of monetary d
 ebt ethnographically, her research demonstrates how easy credit access fo
 sters a new approach to reciprocity and care among working-class communiti
 es and prescribes new mutual ethical and emphatic moral imperatives throug
 h collective cyclical indebtedness.Her broader research interests lie at t
 he intersections of economic anthropology and political economy, labour s
 tudies, gender, and kinship, with a focus on Turkey and the Middle East
 . Her work has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation (2020) and the
  Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern UniversityRegister:
  http://uoft.me/ferda-ce-talk \n\nSponsors \nThe Centre for Ethnography (U
 niversity of Toronto Scarborough) \n1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON
  M1C 3A8 \n\nCategories \n Seminars \n\nAudiences \n CommunityFacultyGradu
 ate StudentsStaff
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LOCATION:1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON M1C 3A8
SUMMARY:Making of Morally Immunizing Debts: Underground Minework, Gendered
  Credit Access and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin
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 unizing-debts-underground-minework-gendered-credit-access-and-intimacy-som
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