BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//yonder𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆//Occurrence export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bb62ceb0ed065b0bc391fa16e93d1b9f9f6f65b2fcd851136a322fe55cf364c0@event- watcher.grosmar.art DTSTAMP:20261111T014825Z DTSTART:20261111T083000Z DTEND:20261112T161500Z SUMMARY:Doing with Dependence in the Era of Financialization LOCATION:Budapest URL:https://yondernite.com/esemeny/doing-with-dependence-in-the-era-of-fina ncialization-2026-11-11 DESCRIPTION:yonder𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆: https://yondernite.com/esemeny/doing-wi th-dependence-in-the-era-of-financialization-2026-11-11\n\nKezdés: 2026. 11. 11. 09:30 GMT+1 (Europe/Budapest)\n\nVége: 2026. 11. 12. 17:15 GMT+1 (Europe/Budapest)\n\nA naptárfájl a kezdést és a forrás szerinti befe jezést tartalmazza.\n\nEgyszeri naptármentés\; a későbbi változások nem frissülnek automatikusan. Indulás előtt ellenőrizd az eredeti ese ményoldalt.\n\nEredeti esemény: https://allevents.in/budapest/doing-with -dependence-in-the-era-of-financialization/200030989930404\n\nAdatforrás: allevents.in\n\nAdatok ellenőrizve: 2026. 11. 10. 19:05 GMT+1 (Europe/Bu dapest)\n\nAz eredeti oldal leírása:\nDoing with Dependence in the era o f Financialization: Perspectives on the workings and the moralities of dep endent relations in flexible and racial capitalisms Closing Conference of the research project “Moralities of dependent relations in the age of fi nancialization: Rethinking dependence and livelihood among the marginalise d in Hungary”\, supported by the National Research\, Development and Inn ovation Office (NKFIH) in Hungary (FK 143543) Organizers: Judit Durst (ELT E CSS\, Institute for Minority Studies & UCL\, UK) Gergely Pulay (ELTE CSS \, Institute for Minority Studies\, Hungary) Balázs Gosztonyi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenbe rg) Date: 11-12 November 2026 Venue: ELTE Centre for Social Sciences / ZOO M Conference Program: https://kisebbsegkutato.tk.elte.hu/uploads/files/ren dezvenyek/2611_MEGHIVO_PROGRAM_nov_11_12.pdf Over the past four years\, ou r project has explored the features of different types of dependent relati ons. The project’s closing conference invites contributions that examine dependence as an empirical and relational process rather than as an abstr act condition or moral category. We ask how dependence is produced and exp erienced through everyday practices. What do people do with dependence? Ho w and why do they enter into dependent relationships\, and what interests do they bring to them? How are such relationships sustained\, negotiated\, valued\, challenged\, or abandoned? And how do broader political\, econom ic\, and moral orders shape these possibilities? Dependence is central to everyday social life\; however\, political and economic discourse often as sociates it with a lack of autonomy or freedom. In contrast to such hegemo nic concepts\, anthropological research shows that dependence is far more complex. People actively seek\, negotiate\, maintain\, contest\, and resis t dependent relations. We understand dependence as durable\, voluntary or involuntary hierarchical relations in which actors occupy unequal position s within asymmetric\, long-term exchanges of resources\, services\, protec tion\, information\, or obligations. This definition shifts attention away from whether dependence is inherently “good” or “bad” and towards the concrete relations through which it takes shape. Dependent relations can provide access to resources\, information\, and opportunities for a be tter life\, they also entail social and economic obligations\, inequalitie s\, exploitation\, and coercion. The project is particularly interested in three overlapping forms: patron-client relations (hierarchical\, personal ised\, long-term\, and often reciprocity-based relations involving resourc es\, employment\, political support\, protection\, or access to institutio ns)\; brokerage relations (access to scarce resources\, institutions\, emp loyment\, and information through intermediaries)\; and debt dependence (i nstitutionalised or interpersonal relations structured around financial ob ligations\, including debts to banks\, landlords\, employers\, moneylender s or other individuals\, often involving legal\, financial\, or institutio nal enforcement). These forms frequently overlap. A credit application may create a relationship with a mortgage adviser\; employment may depend on an (informal) labour recruiter patron\; repayment terms for informal credi t might be based on personal relations with the shopkeeper\; and debt sett lement terms may depend on lawyers in the case of household overindebtedne ss. While our ethnographic focus is on the micro-level practices through w hich dependence is enacted and negotiated\, we also invite macro-level per spectives that shed light on the broader conditions shaping the emergence of dependent relations\, including precarious labour conditions\, financia lization\, austerity\, migration\, welfare retrenchment\, neoliberal refor ms\, and prolonged crises. The conference brings together comparative ethn ographic perspectives on dependence as a relational practice embedded in b roader political economy. These include the abandonment of local marginali sed populations and the simultaneous rise of authoritarian neoliberalism\, racial capitalism\, peripheral financialization. Rather than treating dep endence primarily as a moral problem or evidence of failed autonomy\, we a re interested in the interests that bring people into dependent relations and what emerge from those relations. The contributors address how people actively work within and upon dependent relations. They may use them strat egically\, reinterpret obligations\, mobilise competing relationships\, re sist exploitation\, or transform the terms of exchange. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR