White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route Rexhepi Piro
White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route Rexhepi Piro For all its history of intersecting empires, the Balkans has been rarely framed as a global site of race and…
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White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route Rexhepi Piro
For all its history of intersecting empires, the Balkans has been rarely framed as a global site of race and coloniality. Connecting severed colonial histories from the vantage point of body politic, Rexhepi turns to the borderland zones of the Balkans to trace past and present geopolitical attempts of walling whiteness. This, as Piro Rexhepi argues in White Enclosures is not surprising, given the perception of the Balkans as colorblind and raceless, a project that spans post-Ottoman racial formations, transverses Socialist modernity and is negotiated anew in the process of postsocialist Euro-Atlantic integration.
From efforts to straighten the sexualities of post-Ottoman Muslim subjects, to Yugoslav nonaligned solidarities between Muslims of the second and third world, to Roma displacement and contemporary emergence of refugee carceral technologies along the Balkan Route,
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