Fear, Hope and Survival in Xinjiang

Uyghur Life in China’s Military Police State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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In this book Sam Tynen, one of the last Uyghur-speaking ethnographers to do embedded fieldwork in Xinjiang, chronicles the Chinese government’s escalation of state terror and political control over the region and its citizens, describing the increase in surveillance, securitization, and militarization of everyday life. Using government documents, and their own observations and interviews, they describe neighbourhood-level policing and a bureaucracy that systematically tracks and records the poorest and most vulnerable people, and has led to the detainment of members of the native Uyghur community for mass internment. Tynen also delves into the everyday lives of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang – describing how they have found spaces of resistance and freedom amidst state oppression. Tynen also shares groundbreaking insight into minority experiences amongst the Uyghurs themselves – particularly women and queer people – who face exclusion and marginalization, not only by the Chinese state, but also by Uyghur society itself. The rich ethnographic detail of this study presents a story of how a people united and divided by inequality, and driven by fear and hope, resist and endure in a military police state.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-02-09
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780755636020

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Sam Tynen is a Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from University of Colorado Boulder and his research focuses on state-building, nationalism, and ethnic conflict in Asia. His research is based on five years of fieldwork in China from 2009-2017. His previous publications have appeared in Political Geography, Geopolitics, and Territory, Politics and Governance, among others.

1. Introduction: Mass Internment Camps in China: How Did We Get Here?2. First Chapter: Surveillance and Policing: Creating a Database of the Poorest and Most Vulnerable3. Second Chapter: Dispossession and Displacement: Escalating the Removal of Uyghurs from the City4. Third Chapter: Quiet Resistance: Finding Moments of Pleasure, Escape, and Hope5. Fourth Chapter: Survival: Coping in the Midst of Poverty and Desperation6. Fifth Chapter: The Female Body: Navigating Expectations of Sexuality7. Sixth Chapter: Queer Uyghurs: Hiding with Nowhere to Go8. Conclusion: Inequality and Oppression: Where Do We Go from Here?Index