Vjosa Musliu
Biographic Data
| ID | 366149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vjosa Musliu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vjosa |
| FAMILY NAME | Musliu |
| SIGNATURE | MUSLIU V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6119-2849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The discourse of the European Union on the 2020 Belarusian civic protests: Understanding the contemporary symbolic geography of Belarus
Despite numerous European Union policy frameworks aimed at approximating countries of Eastern Europe to the European Union, the latter routinely distances itself from the region, actively (re)constructing Europe’s others. This article analyses the reactions of the European Council and the European Parliament to the 2020 crackdown on civilian protests in Belarus through a close reading of 25 press releases issued between May and November 2020, com…
Beyond the ‘(Post-)Conflict Case Study’: Kosovo’s Subterranean Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Resistances, Struggles, Contradictions and Subjectivities
Over quarter of a century since the end of the war, “Kosovo as a case study” continues to be studied in the realm of post-conflict reconstruction, (international) statebuilding and transitional justice. In this article, the authors argue that the reification of Kosovo as a case study has had two interrelated impacts in international relations (IR) literature and its sub-disciplines. First, the traditional literature has treated Kosovo as a black …
Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding: The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo
This volume bears the keen sight of its editors and the exertion of scholars from and of Kosovo to impact the uneven space of knowledge production about this social and political space.It is both a collection and a proposal for the contours of ongoing inter-generational and inter-disciplinary conversations giving shape to future critical, feminist and gendered analyses of state-building.'Prof. Dr. Nita Luci, Ambassador of Kosovo to Norway 'Femini…
Have You Ever Heard of British Hospitality? Neither Have I
“Why do you want to come to my country; are you going to put my entire existence at risk when you do so; how long will you stay; show me how much money you have before I consider letting you in; are you a terrorist; what is your skin colour”. These questions are the very antidote of hospitality. Yet, they are completely normalized in visa application procedures of Western and European countries. In this auto-ethnographic piece I show the impossib…
Feminists, Nationalist, Combatants, Activists. A Conversation with Vjosa Musliu on the Multi-Faceted Role of Women in Kosovo
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. For more on the structural oppression against the Roma in former Yugoslavia, see the book by Julija Sardelic, entitled The Fringes of Citizenship: Romani Minorities in Europe and Civic Marginalization (2021, Manchester University Press).2. For a nuanced overview of the othering of Roma women, see the work of Jashari (Citation2019).3. https://shtepiteshkoll…
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia
This collective discussion brings together six women scholars of and from the post-Yugoslav space, who, using personal experiences, analyze the dynamics of knowledge production in international relations (IR), especially regarding the post-Yugoslav space. Working in Global North academia but with lived experiences in the region we study, our research is often subjected to a particular gaze, seeped in assumptions about 'ulterior' motives and expec…
Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans
This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and …
Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo
Spectres of Kosovo: 20 Years of Liminality and Aporia
Using the concepts of spectres, liminality and aporia as conceptualised by Jacques Derrida, this article offers a critical read to Kosovo’s conundrums with its sovereignty. The main argument of this article is that in the system of sovereign states, Kosovo is permanently entangled in an aporetic situation in that it has to coexist between being a recognised and a contested state; between a legitimate and illegitimate polity; between unequivocally…
Imagining Ukraine: From History and Myths to Maidan Protests
This article examines how the Maidan protests of 2013–2014 were a space for the collision of conflicting narratives on what Ukraine is and what it should be, and how past, present, and future were used to imagine contemporary Ukraine. Making use of speech acts by local and international actors and politicians on the Ukraine crisis, historical narratives on Ukraine, Maidan protest slogans, and field work data gathered throughout 2013–2016 in Ukrai…
Sovereignty a-venir: Towards a Normative Understanding of Sovereignty
This article draws upon Derridean philosophy to argue for a more holistic understanding of sovereignty, a reading of the concept that alternatively envisages sovereignty as home, is prone to normativity, and bestows sovereignty with an ethical perspective. The first section shows how scholarly efforts to approach sovereignty, the English School of international relations theory in particular, do not go far enough in engaging with the concept in n…
Multi-ethnic democracy as an autoimmune practice: The case of international missions in Kosovo
This article explains how the international project for building multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo undermines itself by effectively opposing the very concept of democracy. Derrida explained this with ‘autoimmunity’, a term which describes the failed attempt of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, leading to an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Unlike Derrida, I provide that the promotion or the building of m…
MetaKosovo: Local and International Narratives
This article: Problematizes the concept of ‘home’ and ‘hospitality’ in the case of unfinished states in terms of sovereignty. Argues that the concept of home is always preconditioned by the differences of host and guest; in cases where these two are intermingled/confused/unclear, the concept of home changes too. Looks at local and international narratives on Kosovo as a struggle of conceptual ownerships. Asserts that international and local narra…
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine
Imagining Ukraine: From History and Myths to Maidan Protests
This article examines how the Maidan protests of 2013–2014 were a space for the collision of conflicting narratives on what Ukraine is and what it should be, and how past, present, and future were used to imagine contemporary Ukraine. Making use of speech acts by local and international actors and politicians on the Ukraine crisis, historical narratives on Ukraine, Maidan protest slogans, and field work data gathered throughout 2013–2016 in Ukrai…
Spectres of Kosovo: 20 Years of Liminality and Aporia
Using the concepts of spectres, liminality and aporia as conceptualised by Jacques Derrida, this article offers a critical read to Kosovo’s conundrums with its sovereignty. The main argument of this article is that in the system of sovereign states, Kosovo is permanently entangled in an aporetic situation in that it has to coexist between being a recognised and a contested state; between a legitimate and illegitimate polity; between unequivocally…
MetaKosovo: Local and International Narratives
This article: Problematizes the concept of ‘home’ and ‘hospitality’ in the case of unfinished states in terms of sovereignty. Argues that the concept of home is always preconditioned by the differences of host and guest; in cases where these two are intermingled/confused/unclear, the concept of home changes too. Looks at local and international narratives on Kosovo as a struggle of conceptual ownerships. Asserts that international and local narra…
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia
This collective discussion brings together six women scholars of and from the post-Yugoslav space, who, using personal experiences, analyze the dynamics of knowledge production in international relations (IR), especially regarding the post-Yugoslav space. Working in Global North academia but with lived experiences in the region we study, our research is often subjected to a particular gaze, seeped in assumptions about 'ulterior' motives and expec…
Multi-ethnic democracy as an autoimmune practice: The case of international missions in Kosovo
This article explains how the international project for building multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo undermines itself by effectively opposing the very concept of democracy. Derrida explained this with ‘autoimmunity’, a term which describes the failed attempt of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, leading to an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Unlike Derrida, I provide that the promotion or the building of m…
Sovereignty a-venir: Towards a Normative Understanding of Sovereignty
This article draws upon Derridean philosophy to argue for a more holistic understanding of sovereignty, a reading of the concept that alternatively envisages sovereignty as home, is prone to normativity, and bestows sovereignty with an ethical perspective. The first section shows how scholarly efforts to approach sovereignty, the English School of international relations theory in particular, do not go far enough in engaging with the concept in n…
MetaKosovo: Local and International Narratives
This article: Problematizes the concept of ‘home’ and ‘hospitality’ in the case of unfinished states in terms of sovereignty. Argues that the concept of home is always preconditioned by the differences of host and guest; in cases where these two are intermingled/confused/unclear, the concept of home changes too. Looks at local and international narratives on Kosovo as a struggle of conceptual ownerships. Asserts that international and local narra…
Multi-ethnic democracy as an autoimmune practice: The case of international missions in Kosovo
This article explains how the international project for building multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo undermines itself by effectively opposing the very concept of democracy. Derrida explained this with ‘autoimmunity’, a term which describes the failed attempt of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, leading to an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Unlike Derrida, I provide that the promotion or the building of m…
Sovereignty a-venir: Towards a Normative Understanding of Sovereignty
This article draws upon Derridean philosophy to argue for a more holistic understanding of sovereignty, a reading of the concept that alternatively envisages sovereignty as home, is prone to normativity, and bestows sovereignty with an ethical perspective. The first section shows how scholarly efforts to approach sovereignty, the English School of international relations theory in particular, do not go far enough in engaging with the concept in n…
Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo
Spectres of Kosovo: 20 Years of Liminality and Aporia
Using the concepts of spectres, liminality and aporia as conceptualised by Jacques Derrida, this article offers a critical read to Kosovo’s conundrums with its sovereignty. The main argument of this article is that in the system of sovereign states, Kosovo is permanently entangled in an aporetic situation in that it has to coexist between being a recognised and a contested state; between a legitimate and illegitimate polity; between unequivocally…
Imagining Ukraine: From History and Myths to Maidan Protests
This article examines how the Maidan protests of 2013–2014 were a space for the collision of conflicting narratives on what Ukraine is and what it should be, and how past, present, and future were used to imagine contemporary Ukraine. Making use of speech acts by local and international actors and politicians on the Ukraine crisis, historical narratives on Ukraine, Maidan protest slogans, and field work data gathered throughout 2013–2016 in Ukrai…
Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans
This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and …
Have You Ever Heard of British Hospitality? Neither Have I
“Why do you want to come to my country; are you going to put my entire existence at risk when you do so; how long will you stay; show me how much money you have before I consider letting you in; are you a terrorist; what is your skin colour”. These questions are the very antidote of hospitality. Yet, they are completely normalized in visa application procedures of Western and European countries. In this auto-ethnographic piece I show the impossib…
Feminists, Nationalist, Combatants, Activists. A Conversation with Vjosa Musliu on the Multi-Faceted Role of Women in Kosovo
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. For more on the structural oppression against the Roma in former Yugoslavia, see the book by Julija Sardelic, entitled The Fringes of Citizenship: Romani Minorities in Europe and Civic Marginalization (2021, Manchester University Press).2. For a nuanced overview of the othering of Roma women, see the work of Jashari (Citation2019).3. https://shtepiteshkoll…
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia
This collective discussion brings together six women scholars of and from the post-Yugoslav space, who, using personal experiences, analyze the dynamics of knowledge production in international relations (IR), especially regarding the post-Yugoslav space. Working in Global North academia but with lived experiences in the region we study, our research is often subjected to a particular gaze, seeped in assumptions about 'ulterior' motives and expec…
Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding: The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo
This volume bears the keen sight of its editors and the exertion of scholars from and of Kosovo to impact the uneven space of knowledge production about this social and political space.It is both a collection and a proposal for the contours of ongoing inter-generational and inter-disciplinary conversations giving shape to future critical, feminist and gendered analyses of state-building.'Prof. Dr. Nita Luci, Ambassador of Kosovo to Norway 'Femini…
The discourse of the European Union on the 2020 Belarusian civic protests: Understanding the contemporary symbolic geography of Belarus
Despite numerous European Union policy frameworks aimed at approximating countries of Eastern Europe to the European Union, the latter routinely distances itself from the region, actively (re)constructing Europe’s others. This article analyses the reactions of the European Council and the European Parliament to the 2020 crackdown on civilian protests in Belarus through a close reading of 25 press releases issued between May and November 2020, com…
Beyond the ‘(Post-)Conflict Case Study’: Kosovo’s Subterranean Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Resistances, Struggles, Contradictions and Subjectivities
Over quarter of a century since the end of the war, “Kosovo as a case study” continues to be studied in the realm of post-conflict reconstruction, (international) statebuilding and transitional justice. In this article, the authors argue that the reification of Kosovo as a case study has had two interrelated impacts in international relations (IR) literature and its sub-disciplines. First, the traditional literature has treated Kosovo as a black …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (5 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works)