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Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Uyghur Region - The Terroristization of Xinjiang (Paperback)
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Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Uyghur Region - The Terroristization of Xinjiang (Paperback)
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This book investigates how Uyghur-related violent conflict and
Uyghur ethnic minority identity, religion, and the Xinjiang region,
more broadly, became constituted as a 'terrorism' problem for the
Chinese state. Building on securitization theory, Critical
Terrorism Studies (CTS), and the scholarly definitional debate on
terrorism, it develops the concept of terroristization as a
critical analytical framework for the study of historical processes
of threat construction. Investigating the violent events reported
in Xinjiang since the early 1980s, the evolving discursive patterns
used by the Chinese state to make sense of violent incidents, and
the crackdown policies that the official terrorism discourse has
legitimized, the book demonstrates how the securitization, and
later terroristization, of Xinjiang and the Uyghurs, is the result
of a discursive and political choice of the Chinese state. The
author reveals the contingent and unstable nature of such
construction, and how it problematizes the inevitability of the
rationale behind China's 'war on terror', that has prescribed a
brutal crackdown as the most viable approach to governing the
tensions that have historically characterized China's rule over the
Turkic Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. This book will be of
interest to scholars and students of the politics of contemporary
China, security and ethnic minority issues, International Relations
and Security, as well as those adopting discursive approaches to
the study of security, notably those within the critical security
and terrorism studies fields.
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