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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. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the campaign has since become a wholesale attempt to remould the ways of life of these peoples--an experiment in social engineering aimed at erasing their cultures and traditions in order to transform them into 'civilised' citizens as construed by the Chinese state. Through a collection of essays penned by scholars who have conducted extensive research in the region, this volume sets itself three goals: first, to document the reality of the emerging surveillance state and coercive assimilation unfolding in Xinjiang in recent years and continuing today; second, to describe the workings and analyse the causes of these policies, highlighting how these developments insert themselves not only in domestic Chinese trends, but also in broader global dynamics; and, third, to propose action, to heed the progressive Left's call since Marx to change the world and not just analyse it. -- [Publisher's website]

Table of Contents:

• Preface / Andrea Pitzer
• Introduction / Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere
• Part I: Discursive roots. 1. Nation-building as epistemic violence / Ye Hui ; 2. Revolution and state formation as oasis storytelling in Xinjiang / Zenab Ahmed ; 3. Blood lineage / Guldana Salimjan ; 4. Good and bad Muslims in Xinjiang / David Brophy ; 5. Imprisoning the open air: Preventive policing as community detention in northwestern China / Darren Byler
• Part II: Settler colonialism. 6. Oil and water / Tom Cliff ; 7. Recruiting loyal stabilisers: On the banality of carceral colonialism in Xinjiang / Guldana Salimjan ; 8. Triple dispossession in northwestern China / Sam Tynen ; 9. Replace and rebuild: Chinese colonial housing in Uyghur communities / Timothy A. Grose ; 10. The spatial cleansing of Xinjiang: Mazar desecration in context / Rian Thum ; 11. Camp land: Settler ecotourism and Kazakh removal in contemporary Xinjiang / Guldana Salimjan ; 12. Factories of Turkic Muslim internment / Darren Byler
• Part III: Global connections. 13. The global age of the algorithm: Social credit, Xinjiang, and the financialisation of governance in China / Nicholas Loubere and Stefan Brehm ; 14. Surveillance, data police, and digital enclosure in Xinjiang's 'Safe Cities' / Darren Byler ; 15. Transnational carceral capitalism and private paramilitaries in Xinjiang and beyond / Gerald Roche ; 16. Chinese feminism, Tibet, and Xinjiang / Séagh Kehoe ; 17. China: Xinjiang :: India: Kashmir / Nitasha Kaul
• Conclusion.

Contributors:

Byler, Darren , editor

Franceschini, Ivan , editor

Loubere, Nicholas , editor

Pitzer, Andrea , writer of preface

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Xinjiang year zero (Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press — ISBN 9781760464943; OCLC Number 1289469184)

Subjects:

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) — Relations — China

China — Relations — China — Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Social change — China — Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) — Politics and government

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) — Economic conditions

Economic development — China — Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Economic development

Economic history

International relations

Politics and government

Social change

China

China — Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Relations

Economic conditions

General Notes:

The publication of this book is generously supported by the Per Anders och Maibrit Westrins Stiftelse.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 316 pages :)illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file; PDF; 6.4 MB

Call Numbers:

DS793.S62 X565 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781760464950 (electronic bk.)
1760464953 (electronic bk.)
9781760464943 (paperback) [Invalid]
1760464945 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1289458546