2025.01.21
【Seminar February 4】International Research Platform for Survival Strategies – Online Seminar “White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism & Coloniality Along the Balkan Route”
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Date & Time : February 4, 2025 (Tuesday), 17:00-18:30
Venue : Online (Zoom)
Topic : “White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism & Coloniality Along the Balkan Route”
Presenter : Piro Rexhepi (University College London)
Language : English
Registration for online participation：Please register from here
Organized by : International Research Platform for Survival Strategies, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC) of Hokkaido University.
Contact： < gavrankapetan[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
About the Seminar : Piro Rexhepi (Research Fellow, University College London) will present his new book White Enclosures (Duke University Press, 2023).
White Enclosure traces Euro-Atlantic politics of borderization along the Balkan Route as a way of bringing attention to peripheries of white supremacy where processes of race and border making are intricately and historically tied to the ways in which whiteness and coloniality function within the inner core of Euro-American spaces. It examines the integration of post-socialist people and spaces into the Euro-Atlantic alliance as a strategic spatial sedimentation of a racial difference between the redeemable and integrable whiteness of the post-socialist former br/other and the irredeemable and impasse of the postcolonial others. Here, the spatial integration of post-socialist territories into the white enclosure serves to both secure its borderlands while also recruiting Eastern European white workers as means of tackling both the demands for cheap labour and the racial demographics decline. The book theorizes this process as the geopolitical whiteness, or, the post-Cold War recalibration of Euro-American colonial/capitalist race-making in relation to ongoing territorial enclosures of whiteness where the Balkan Route serves as a racial cordon sanitaire of colonial difference in the current geopolitical coordinates of coloniality.
