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The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness in the Balkans

Post author By Adem Ferizaj
Post date March 14, 2023

Piro Rexhepi’s book White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route (Duke University Press 2022) is a refreshing study that goes beyond current global queerphobic and racist tendencies and focuses on largely overlooked Bosnian, Albanian, and Roma Muslim lived experiences. In 2015, ‘Balkan route’ became a buzzword for war refugees predominantly from Syria […]

Tags Balkans, Muslims, postsocialism, whiteness

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Fascists lead huge demo on Poland’s Independence Day

Post author By lefteast
Post date November 26, 2019

By any measure, November 11’s fascist-led Independence Day march in Warsaw was terrifying. The authorities said 50,000 people marched through the Polish capital, while the organisers claimed 150,000. The true figure is likely to be somewhere in between. The march was obviously huge, however. Participants lined up in over sixty rows at the start; the […]

Tags antifascism, Fascim, Jewish, LGBTQI, Muslims, Poland