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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.
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