Race and the Yugoslav region: Postsocialist, post‐conflict, postcolonial?

Baker's work seeks to orientate studies of the Balkans around the idea of "race" - a notion that seems for her to "... almost always pass over the east of Europe and its state socialist past" (1). The Balkans is certainly entangled with global coloniality, as Baker argues, though not merely as its recipient but as its active incubator of racist thinking. Yet from border policies to architectural projects, the Islamic heritage of Balkans has been conceived by white European powers as within I their i sphere of influence that must be kept from pernicious outside influence (Rexhepi, [8], [9]). [Extracted from the article]