Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022)
The\xa0continuing\xa0crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many\xa0scholars and reporters, led to greatly\xa0increased\xa0awareness of the region's history and\xa0Uyghur population among publics outside China.\xa0But so far\xa0less\xa0appreciated have been the specific ways in which\xa0the\xa0targeted\xa0regime of Uyghur\xa0imprisonment operates, and\xa0its creeping\xa0emergence\xa0over the course of\xa0the 2010s.\nDarren Byler\u2019s\xa0Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City\xa0(Duke UP, 2022) is therefore\xa0a vital addition to our understanding of this emergency. Based on long-term fieldwork in Urumqi and elsewhere, this is a chilling and deeply moving portrait of processes of dispossession\xa0and \u2018reeducation\u2019 whose advance has intensified since the 2014 onset of what the Chinese government calls the \u2018People\u2019s War on Terror\u2019.\xa0Combining ethnographic nuance with piercing insight into grand\xa0colonial processes, Byler both offers an encompassing theory of the\xa0technological, economic and political forces which have brought this situation about, and demonstrates its horrifying effects on\xa0ordinary people who\xa0face an unassailable edifice of state and corporate\xa0violence.\n\ufeffEd Pulford\xa0is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on friendships and histories between the Chinese, Korean and Russian worlds, and indigeneity in northeast Asia.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies