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Ferda Nur Demirci is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Economic Experimentation. Her current research focuses on the interplay between financial inclusion policies, kinship obligations, resource extraction economies and authoritarian state policies with a particular focus on the cycles of indebtedness affecting working-class families in Turkey. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, she examines emerging forms of national financial belonging in a globally financialized landscape, with attention to how a long history of financial dependency, reaching back to the Ottoman Empire, continues to inform authoritarian financial inclusion policies in today’s Turkey.
Her work has been published in both English and Turkish in outlets such as Antipode Online, Dialectical Anthropology, and 1+1. She is committed to fostering interdisciplinary conversations on finance, digital infrastructures, and everyday transactions. She is an active collaborator with, and research associate in, the Counter Currency Laboratory at the University of Victoria, Canada. Ferda holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Toronto and a BA and MA in Sociology from Boğaziçi University, Turkey.