Balkans of Colour – A Handbook for Decolonial Encounters is thought to discuss the field of Critical Race Studies in the context of Southeast Europe. It has the scope of unraveling hidden mechanisms of racialization against ‘national foreigners’ and the project of modernization/Europeanisation within the region. It explores the viability of the race/racialization paradigm in Greece, Albania, and Bulgaria to challenge the ‘innocent narrative’ of these Balkan countries with a non-colonial history. The Handbook proposes a series of good practices and critical perspectives that can (re)explore decolonial practices in some Balkan countries’ history and socio-political dynamics.
This project has been realized as part of the EuroLab project and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union and thanks to the support of Forum for Glocal Change, Gabrovo, Bulgaria. The contents of the toolkit are the responsibility of the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views and opinions of EuroLab, their donors, and the NGO Forum for Glocal Change. The opinions expressed by the authors are their own and do not represent the views of the institutions, organisations and professional entities they are professionally affiliated with.
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