Xinjiang Year Zero edited by Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byler, Darren., Editor.

Franceschini, Ivan., Editor.

Loubere, Nicholas., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Economic development--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Relations--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages) illustration, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra Australian National University Press [2022]

Summary:

Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in 'reeducation camps' in China's northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Figure, map, and plates

Tables

Preface

Xinjiang year zero: An introduction

Part I: Discursive roots

1. Nation-building as epistemic violence

2. Revolution and state formation as oasis storytelling in Xinjiang

3. Blood lineage

4. Good and bad Muslims in Xinjiang

5. Imprisoning the open air: Preventive policing as community detention in northwestern China

Part II: Settler colonialism

6. Oil and water

7. Recruiting loyal stabilisers: On the banality of carceral colonialism in Xinjiang

8. Triple dispossession in northwestern China

9. Replace and rebuild: Chinese colonial housing in Uyghur communities

10. The spatial cleansing of Xinjiang: Mazar desecration in context

11. Camp land: Settler ecotourism and Kazakh removal in contemporary Xinjiang

12. Factories of Turkic Muslim internment

Part III: Global connections

13. The global age of the algorithm: Social credit, Xinjiang, and the financialisation of governance

14. Surveillance, data police, and digital enclosure in Xinjiang's 'Safe Cities'

15. Transnational carceral capitalism and private paramilitaries in Xinjiang and beyond

16. Chinese feminism, Tibet, and Xinjiang

17. China: Xinjiang :: India: Kashmir

Conclusion

Appendix: Xinjiang timeline

Author biographies

Bibliography.

ISBN:

9781760464950

OCLC:

1289458546