Piro Rexhepi, "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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Is the Euro Atlantic Alliance a Continuation of the Atlantis Movement?
Whiteness as a continuation of the Atlantis movement, then gets reestablished again after the Cold War with the integration of post socialist people and spaces into the European Union. And so I try to think through the geopolitics of whiteness in the book as a process, whose goal is to create borders around. The transatlantic and make these spaces impenetrable from outside. It's just that we still use obviously a different language to address them.
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