The Xinjiang Emergency : Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China's Mass Detention of Uyghurs / Michael Clarke, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Michael, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detention of persons--China.

Detention of persons.

Uighur (Turkic people)--China.

Uighur (Turkic people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

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 tend 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:

Introduction: colonialism, state-building and resistance: exploring the causes of the Xinjiang emergency / Michael Clarke

Part I: Context

1. Echoes from the past: repression in the Uyghur Region now and then / Sandrine Catris

2. Social control and 'a rebirth of the nation': assessing the genocidal process in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region / Anna Hayes

3. Cultural genocide in the name of counterterrorism / Sean Roberts

Part II: Modalities and methodologies of re-education and everyday repression

4. 'Penetrate' their lives like an 'intravenous needle': pathology, inducement, and mass incarcerations of Xinjiang's 'targeted population' / Timothy Grose and James Leibold

5. Factories of Uyghur internment: re-education through industrial parks in northwest China / Darren Byle

6. Predatory biopolitics: the monetization of Uyghur bodies and organs / Matthew Robertson

7. Corrective reeducation as cultural genocide in the Uyghur region: a contents analysis of the revised edition of the children's textbook Til-Ädäbiyat (2018) / Joanne Smith-Finley and Dilmurat Mahmut

Part III: Domestic and foreign policy implications

7. Xinjiang and the great revival of the "Chinese Race" in an age of postcolonial anxiety / David Tobin

8. The effect of virtual lockdown of Xinjiang on Uyghur diaspora / Ablimit Baki Elterish

9. The 'informatization' of security in Xinjiang and beyond / Edward Schwarck

10. China's information war on Xinjiang: from denial and distraction to 'Telling China's story well' / Michael Clarke

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526153128

1526153122

OCLC:

1301907854