White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route

Monday, April 17, 2023

Dr. Piro Rexhepi gave an invigorating talk titled “White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route” and joined us for a generative Q&A on race relations, sexual configurations, and the role of Europe in the Balkans. We thank him for his many insights. This was a lecture of the “Decolonizing Europe Lecture Series” and hosted by Professor Fatima EI-Tayeb, Yale University

Piro Rexhepi’s research focuses on decoloniality, sexuality and Islam. His recent work on racism and borders along the Balkan Refugee Route has been published in a range of mediums in and out of academia including the International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Muslims and the Guardian among others. He is the author of White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route, Duke University Press (2022).

Sponsored by: Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; European Studies Council (ESC) at the Yale MacMillan Center; and the Race, Migration, and Coloniality in Europe Working Group