Terror capitalism : Uyghur dispossession and masculinity in a Chinese city / Darren Byler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byler, Darren, author.

Contributor:

Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions.

Uighur (Turkic people).

Detention of persons--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Detention of persons.

Human rights--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Human rights.

Mineral industries--Corrupt practices--China.

Mineral industries.

Men--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Identity.

Men.

Masculinity--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Masculinity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Mineral industries--Corrupt practices.

Social conditions.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic relations.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Ethnic relations.

Men--Identity.

China.

China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Genre:

Legislative hearings.

Physical Description:

xxi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"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 Ürümchi, 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 co-constructed with a colonial relation of domination"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Enclosure

2. Devaluation

3. Dispossession

4. Friendship

5. Minor Politics

6. Subtraction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Byler, Darren. Terror capitalism.

ISBN:

9781478015024

1478015020

9781478017646

1478017643

OCLC:

1241163649