Book Talk: White Enclosure: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route - Adem Ferizaj & Piro Rexhepi

A crossover episode discussing the Balkans from a decolonial perspective. 

 

Piro Rexhepi is a researcher based in London. He holds a PhD in politics and writes about borders, racism, religion, and sexuality. He is the author of “White Enclosures Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route.” It was published by Duke University Press in December 2022 and is discussed in today’s episode.

 

Adem Ferizaj is a PhD student at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London. His dissertation is an epistemological study of the roles of Muslim-majority populations from the Balkans in the global hierarchies of whiteness. He has previously worked as a graduate teaching assistant at SOAS.

 

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