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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520004203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : Australian National University Press, [2022]

© 2022

ISBN

9781760464950

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages) : illustration, maps

Disciplina

951/.6

Soggetti

Social change--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Economic development--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.