Rozafa Maliqi is a community organizer, cultural manager and researcher. She studied Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria. For more than 15 years, she has been working across cultural and grassroots initiatives in Kosova, alongside research and publication projects, and a period spent in Vietnam teaching English. She was part of the collective that established Termokiss and currently works with Kino Armata in Prishtina. Rozafa is most drawn to collective processes and the possibilities that emerge where community work takes place.
Her research project, developed in collaboration with Ana Milosavljević, examines how the global wave of uprisings in 1968 manifested in former Yugoslavia, taking distinct forms in the political center, Serbia, and in the marginalized periphery, Kosova, and what this reveals about the dynamics of the federation. Both researchers are members of the Balkan Solidarity Network, and the project aims to help activate a wider conversation connected to the work and solidarities built through this network.
Keywords: global wave of uprisings in 1968, nationalism, protests, students