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In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the
contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority
group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that
the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in "reeducation
camps" is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands
that have led to what he calls terror capitalism-a configuration of
ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this
case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork in the regional capital UErumchi, Byler shows how media
infrastructures, the state's enforcement of "Chinese" cultural
values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur
dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly
attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men-who are the primary
target of state violence-and how they develop masculinities and
homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered,
ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and
economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that
state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a
colonial relation of domination.
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent
contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese
state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the
impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary
job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty
of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. He
wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter
pollution, reciting a monologue of numbers and odors, lust and
loathing, memories and madness. Perhat Tursun's novel is a work of
untrammeled literary creativity. His evocative prose recalls a vast
array of canonical world writers-contemporary Chinese authors such
as Mo Yan; the modernist images and rhythms of Camus, Dostoevsky,
and Kafka; the serious yet absurdist dissection of the logic of
racism in Ellison's Invisible Man-while drawing deeply on Uyghur
literary traditions and Sufi poetics and combining all these
disparate influences into a style that is distinctly Perhat
Tursun's own. The Backstreets is a stark fable about urban
isolation and social violence, dehumanization and the racialization
of ethnicity. Yet its protagonist's vivid recollections of maternal
tenderness and first love reveal how memory and imagination offer
profound forms of resilience. A translator's introduction situates
the novel in the political atmosphere that led to the disappearance
of both the author and his work.
In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the
contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority
group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that
the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in "reeducation
camps" is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands
that have led to what he calls terror capitalism-a configuration of
ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this
case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork in the regional capital UErumchi, Byler shows how media
infrastructures, the state's enforcement of "Chinese" cultural
values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur
dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly
attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men-who are the primary
target of state violence-and how they develop masculinities and
homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered,
ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and
economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that
state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a
colonial relation of domination.
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent
contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese
state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the
impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary
job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty
of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. He
wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter
pollution, reciting a monologue of numbers and odors, lust and
loathing, memories and madness. Perhat Tursun's novel is a work of
untrammeled literary creativity. His evocative prose recalls a vast
array of canonical world writers-contemporary Chinese authors such
as Mo Yan; the modernist images and rhythms of Camus, Dostoevsky,
and Kafka; the serious yet absurdist dissection of the logic of
racism in Ellison's Invisible Man-while drawing deeply on Uyghur
literary traditions and Sufi poetics and combining all these
disparate influences into a style that is distinctly Perhat
Tursun's own. The Backstreets is a stark fable about urban
isolation and social violence, dehumanization and the racialization
of ethnicity. Yet its protagonist's vivid recollections of maternal
tenderness and first love reveal how memory and imagination offer
profound forms of resilience. A translator's introduction situates
the novel in the political atmosphere that led to the disappearance
of both the author and his work.
A revelatory account of what is really happening to China's Uyghurs
'Intimate, sombre, and damning... compelling.' Financial Times
'Chilling... Horrifying.' Spectator 'Invaluable.' Telegraph In
China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half
Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated
factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and
workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of
research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur
society uncovers their plight. Revealing a sprawling network of
surveillance technology supplied by firms in both China and the
West, Byler shows how the country has created an unprecedented
system of Orwellian control. A definitive account of one of the
world's gravest human rights violations, In the Camps is also a
potent warning against the misuse of technology and big data.
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel
forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the
world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to
fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in
government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the
broader Muslim world—from influential theoretical and political
contestations over Muslim women’s status, the popularization of
mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to
increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does
not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally
understood, China’s Muslims have strengthened and expanded their
global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese
Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With
contributions from a wide variety of scholars—all sharing a
commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach—this volume
provides the first comprehensive account of China’s Islamic
revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from
the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the
multifarious nature of China’s Islam revival, which defies any
reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development
motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded
in China’s broader economic transition. Most importantly, they
trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that
undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting
head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims—Uyghur Muslims
in particular—at a time of intense religious oppression,
intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology.
With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also
traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two
groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of
disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such,
Ethnographies of Islam in China is essential reading for those
interested in Islam’s complexity in contemporary China and its
broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of
Chinese society seen through the prism of religion.
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel
forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the
world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to
fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in
government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the
broader Muslim world - from influential theoretical and political
contestations over Muslim women's status, the popularization of
mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to
increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does
not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally
understood, China's Muslims have strengthened and expanded their
global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese
Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With
contributions from a wide variety of scholars - all sharing a
commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach - this volume
provides the first comprehensive account of China's Islamic revival
since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the
wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the
multifarious nature of China's Islam revival, which defies any
reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development
motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded
in China's broader economic transition. Most importantly, they
trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that
undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting
head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims - Uyghur Muslims
in particular - at a time of intense religious oppression,
intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology.
With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also
traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two
groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of
disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such
Ethnographies of Islam in China will be essential reading for those
interested in Islam's complexity in contemporary China and its
broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of
Chinese society seen through the prism of religion.
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