The Xinjiang emergency : exploring the causes and consequences of China's mass detention of Uyghurs / edited by Michael Clarke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Michael, 1977- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Uighur (Turkic people).

Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Government relations.

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

Detention of persons.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Ethnic relations--History--21st century.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Politics and government.

Ethnic relations.

Politics and government.

China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained there without trial. In the detention centres individuals are exposed to deeply invasive forms of surveillance and psychological stress, while outside them more than ten million Turkic Muslim minorities are subjected to a network of hi-tech surveillance systems, checkpoints and interpersonal monitoring. Existing reportage and commentary on the crisis tends to address these issues in isolation, but this ground-breaking volume brings them together, exploring the interconnections between the core strands of the Xinjiang emergency in order to generate a more accurate understanding of the mass detentions' significance for the future of President Xi Jinping's China.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Framing the Xinjiang emergency: Colonialism and settler colonialism as pathways to cultural genocide? / Michael Clarke

pt. I Context

2. Echoes from the past: Repression in the Uyghur region now and then / Sandrine Catris

3. The Kashgar Dangerous House Reform Programme: Social engineering, `a rebirth of the nation', and a significant building block in Chinas creeping genocide / Anna Hayes

4. Settler colonialism in the name of counterterrorism: Of `savages' and `terrorists' / Sean R. Roberts

pt. II Discourses and practices of repression

5. Pathology, inducement, and mass incarcerations of Xinjiang's `targeted population' / James Leibold

6. Two-faced: Turkic Muslim camp workers, subjection, and active witnessing / Darren Byler

7. Corrective `re-education' as (cultural) genocide: A content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til-Adabiyat / Joanne Smith Finley

8. Predatory biopolitics: Organ harvesting and other means of monetizing Uyghur `surplus' / Matthew P. Robertson

pt. III Domestic and international implications

9. `Round-the-clock, three-dimensional control': The evolution and implications of the `Xinjiang mode' of counterterrorism / Michael Clarke

10. The effect of Xinjiang's virtual lockdown on the Uyghur diaspora / Ablimit Baki Elterish

11. `Window of opportunity': The Xinjiang emergency in China's `new type of international relations' / David Tobin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526153098

1526153092

9781526153111

1526153114

OCLC:

1289267972