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Firat Bozcali is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). His research focuses on political and legal anthropology, political economy, transnational flows, and science and technology studies, with a regional emphasis on the modern Middle East. His work examines how Kurdish smugglers and lawyers in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands navigate state-imposed borders through techno-legal practices, blending materiality, capitalism, and local moral frameworks to explore emergent political subjectivities.
Bozcali’s current book project, based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Van, analyzes how smugglers and legal experts rework commodity market borders through practices ranging from bureaucratic processes to expert testimony. His research highlights how these actions create unexpected political and ethical frameworks in transnational contexts.
His publications span topics like oil smuggling economies, forensic practices in border violence, and post-nation-state political dynamics in Kurdish regions. While no formal awards are listed, his work contributes significantly to critical border studies and political anthropology.
Bozcali’s advising and grants are unspecified in the provided texts, but his research often intersects with global capitalism critiques and legal-technological border management. No lab or team affiliations are mentioned, though his fieldwork emphasizes collaborative ethnographic methods.
