Piro Rexhepi
Biographic Data
| ID | 638769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piro Rexhepi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piro |
| FAMILY NAME | Rexhepi |
| SIGNATURE | REXHEPI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9691-1842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rehearsing Abolition
This article examines rehearsing abolition and creating spaces of life, refusal, and mutual aid within and against the violence of the EUropean “peace,” entangled in racial capitalism. Interrogating imaginaries of Europe as a peace project, we show how “peace” is produced through exclusion, bordering, and the management of populations across frontiers. Rather than redefining peace, we ask how this violence is confronted through relationality as p…
Italian Migrant Camps in Albania
This article examines the 2023 Italy–Albania agreement for the construction and operation of offshore Italian migrant detention camps in Albania. Looking at the larger history of colonial relations of power between the two countries, the authors trace how recent migration policies—and the emerging carceral capitalist industry in Albania—are entangled with racial hierarchies of global capitalism. By drawing attention to the Italy–Albania migrant d…
White Enclosures
For all its history of intersecting empires, the Balkans has been rarely framed as a global site of race and coloniality. This, as Piro Rexhepi argues in White Enclosures is not surprising, given the perception of the Balkans as colorblind and raceless, a project that spans post-Ottoman racial formations, transverses Socialist modernity and is negotiated anew in the process of postsocialist Euro-Atlantic integration. Connecting severed colonial h…
White Enclosures
Predatory porn, sex work and solidarity at borders
This piece examines the exploitation of migrant sex workers in Greece through the marketization of nonconsensual video recording of sexual encounters where profit and pleasure are extracted from emerging predatory economies at border crossings. In the context of this special issue on Sexuality and Borders, the piece suggests that extraction of value from sexuality and sex work at borders relies on racial profiling of refugees, reinforcing, sortin…
On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam
Over recent decades, Islamic institutions and Muslim communities in the successor nation-states of former Yugoslavia have taken shape against a variegated political and historical topography. In this article, we examine the discourses and politics surrounding Islamic institutions in four post-Yugoslav nation-states: Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Our analysis moves in two directions. On the one hand, we illuminate the historical legaci…
Imperial inventories, "illegal mosques" and institutionalized Islam
Looking at the architectures of governance that have characterized the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this essay explores the ways in which imperial inventories of colonial institutions come to influence and arbitrate contemporary debates over what constitutes legitimate practices of Islam in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria. Examining the larger political context in which these debates emerge, including the criminalization of M…
The Politics of Postcolonial Erasure in Sarajevo
To observers of contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina, the years 2013–2016 have been marked by heightened public discontent and the emergence of civil protests. While early protests surrounded sites unmistakably pertaining to the country's socialist legacy, such as privatized factories, more recent dissatisfaction is being articulated around sites that point to Bosnia's past as a colony of the Hapsburg Empire. This essay argues it is not accidental tha…
Arab others at European borders
Engaging with critical border literature, this article examines how racial and religious categories are mobilized in materializing EU borders in the Balkans. Exploring the tensions that emerge in Muslim communities in post-Socialist and post-conflict Macedonia during the Syrian "refugee crisis" in 2015, it looks at how racialized categorizations of difference are deployed along the Balkan Route to differentiate local, white European Muslims from …
The Revival of Islam in the Balkans
Liberal luxury
This paper reflects on the continued potency of veillance theories to traverse beyond the taxonomies of surveillance inside liberal democracies. It provides a commentary on the ability of sousveillance to destabilise and disrupt suer/violence by shifting its focus from the centre to the periphery, where Big Data surveillance is tantamount to sur/violence. In these peripheral political spaces, surveillance is not framed by concerns over privacy, d…
From Orientalism to Homonationalism
This paper investigates the convergence of European Union enlargement strategies and queer politics in the production of Islamophobia in Kosovo. Through a reading of recent homophobic attacks in Kosovo, it examines how the incorporation of lgbti politics into the eu enlargement assemblages generate a representational praxis of queer communities in Kosovo under threat by Muslim extremists. This paper proposes that the Europeanization of lgbti righ…
Arab others at European borders
Engaging with critical border literature, this article examines how racial and religious categories are mobilized in materializing EU borders in the Balkans. Exploring the tensions that emerge in Muslim communities in post-Socialist and post-conflict Macedonia during the Syrian "refugee crisis" in 2015, it looks at how racialized categorizations of difference are deployed along the Balkan Route to differentiate local, white European Muslims from …
Imperial inventories, "illegal mosques" and institutionalized Islam
Looking at the architectures of governance that have characterized the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this essay explores the ways in which imperial inventories of colonial institutions come to influence and arbitrate contemporary debates over what constitutes legitimate practices of Islam in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria. Examining the larger political context in which these debates emerge, including the criminalization of M…
From Orientalism to Homonationalism
This paper investigates the convergence of European Union enlargement strategies and queer politics in the production of Islamophobia in Kosovo. Through a reading of recent homophobic attacks in Kosovo, it examines how the incorporation of lgbti politics into the eu enlargement assemblages generate a representational praxis of queer communities in Kosovo under threat by Muslim extremists. This paper proposes that the Europeanization of lgbti righ…
Liberal luxury
This paper reflects on the continued potency of veillance theories to traverse beyond the taxonomies of surveillance inside liberal democracies. It provides a commentary on the ability of sousveillance to destabilise and disrupt suer/violence by shifting its focus from the centre to the periphery, where Big Data surveillance is tantamount to sur/violence. In these peripheral political spaces, surveillance is not framed by concerns over privacy, d…
From Orientalism to Homonationalism
This paper investigates the convergence of European Union enlargement strategies and queer politics in the production of Islamophobia in Kosovo. Through a reading of recent homophobic attacks in Kosovo, it examines how the incorporation of lgbti politics into the eu enlargement assemblages generate a representational praxis of queer communities in Kosovo under threat by Muslim extremists. This paper proposes that the Europeanization of lgbti righ…
The Revival of Islam in the Balkans
The Politics of Postcolonial Erasure in Sarajevo
To observers of contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina, the years 2013–2016 have been marked by heightened public discontent and the emergence of civil protests. While early protests surrounded sites unmistakably pertaining to the country's socialist legacy, such as privatized factories, more recent dissatisfaction is being articulated around sites that point to Bosnia's past as a colony of the Hapsburg Empire. This essay argues it is not accidental tha…
Arab others at European borders
Engaging with critical border literature, this article examines how racial and religious categories are mobilized in materializing EU borders in the Balkans. Exploring the tensions that emerge in Muslim communities in post-Socialist and post-conflict Macedonia during the Syrian "refugee crisis" in 2015, it looks at how racialized categorizations of difference are deployed along the Balkan Route to differentiate local, white European Muslims from …
On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam
Over recent decades, Islamic institutions and Muslim communities in the successor nation-states of former Yugoslavia have taken shape against a variegated political and historical topography. In this article, we examine the discourses and politics surrounding Islamic institutions in four post-Yugoslav nation-states: Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Our analysis moves in two directions. On the one hand, we illuminate the historical legaci…
Imperial inventories, "illegal mosques" and institutionalized Islam
Looking at the architectures of governance that have characterized the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this essay explores the ways in which imperial inventories of colonial institutions come to influence and arbitrate contemporary debates over what constitutes legitimate practices of Islam in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria. Examining the larger political context in which these debates emerge, including the criminalization of M…
Predatory porn, sex work and solidarity at borders
This piece examines the exploitation of migrant sex workers in Greece through the marketization of nonconsensual video recording of sexual encounters where profit and pleasure are extracted from emerging predatory economies at border crossings. In the context of this special issue on Sexuality and Borders, the piece suggests that extraction of value from sexuality and sex work at borders relies on racial profiling of refugees, reinforcing, sortin…
White Enclosures
For all its history of intersecting empires, the Balkans has been rarely framed as a global site of race and coloniality. This, as Piro Rexhepi argues in White Enclosures is not surprising, given the perception of the Balkans as colorblind and raceless, a project that spans post-Ottoman racial formations, transverses Socialist modernity and is negotiated anew in the process of postsocialist Euro-Atlantic integration. Connecting severed colonial h…
White Enclosures
Rehearsing Abolition
This article examines rehearsing abolition and creating spaces of life, refusal, and mutual aid within and against the violence of the EUropean “peace,” entangled in racial capitalism. Interrogating imaginaries of Europe as a peace project, we show how “peace” is produced through exclusion, bordering, and the management of populations across frontiers. Rather than redefining peace, we ask how this violence is confronted through relationality as p…
Italian Migrant Camps in Albania
This article examines the 2023 Italy–Albania agreement for the construction and operation of offshore Italian migrant detention camps in Albania. Looking at the larger history of colonial relations of power between the two countries, the authors trace how recent migration policies—and the emerging carceral capitalist industry in Albania—are entangled with racial hierarchies of global capitalism. By drawing attention to the Italy–Albania migrant d…
Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Islam (4 works)