Girlhood At War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo

This book tells the true story of a young girl growing up during the Kosovo war and its immediate aftermath following Kosovo's liberation by NATO troops in 1999. Through her embodied experiences, the book exposes the tangible and everyday acts and events of the war, providing brutal insight into the impact of war and the politics of subjugation.

Meet our speaker and chair

Vjosa Musliu is associate professor at the Democratic Futures Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is the author of Girlhood At War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo (Bloomsbury Academic); Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices. Performing Europe in the Western Balkans (Routledge Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding). She is a co-editor (with Itziar Mujika Chao) of Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding. The role of women in making the state in Kosovo; (with Gëzim Visoka) of the edited volume Unravelling Liberal Interventionism. Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo (Worlding Beyond the West Series). Prof. Musliu is a co-editor of the Routledge Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding Series, member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective and board director at the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Kosovo.

Piro Rexhepi is a Human Rights Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has degrees in International Relations from the City University of New York, a PhD from the University of Strathclyde and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and University College London. He is the author of White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route (Duke University Press).

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