Rozafa Berisha is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on the gendered, social, and affective dimensions of the state. She previously studied at KU Leuven and completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2022.
Berisha is particularly interested in how affective experiences shape and are shaped within political contexts where multiple geopolitical and imperial formations intersect, investigating these questions through a focus on Kosovo. She has been a visiting scholar a visiting scholar at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg (Germany), and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US), supported by Fulbright Scholarship. Her previous publications have addressed themes such as social memory, the gendered politics of state-building, and the affective afterlife of extractive industries.
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Reflections on Cyprus Workshop
The questions that Northern Cyprus evoked in my mind during fieldwork had actually started to surface the moment my journey began—at the airport in Amsterdam.
Why a fieldwork lab in Cyprus?
Cyprus has been the focus of my work since 1993, and it was also the starting point for thinking about infrastructural imperialism.
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