White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route

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• Dr Piro Rexhepi, Southern New Hampshire University
• Tuesday 25 April 2023, 12:30-14:00
• Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Danai Avgeri.

White Enclosures (Duke University Press, 2023) brings together queer and critical race theories with decolonial praxis to examine how recent anti-migration policies along the Balkan Route have brought into sharper attention the more enduring post-Ottoman and post-Habsburg structuring of race and border regimes in the region. The refraction of these post-colonial legacies of spatial and social relations, argues Rexhepi, shape the ongoing redistributive and reproductive rights of Roma, Muslim and refugee communities while reconstituting them as a racial threat to regional demographic and political stability. Combining ethnographic and archival research with policy and media analysis, the book details the complex convergence of the post-socialist politics of sexuality, systematic displacement of Roma communities, criminalization of ‘radical Islam’ and legitimization of migrant squad patrols with the larger regional politics of border control.

This talk is part of the Thinking from the East? Geographies of Postsocialism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge series.

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