The Xinjiang emergency: Exploring the causes and consequences of China’s mass detention of Uyghurs

doi:10.7765/9781526153128

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) 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 groundbreaking 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.

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Front Matter
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Dedication
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Contents
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Figures and tables
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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1 - Framing the Xinjiang emergency: Colonialism and settler colonialism as pathways to cultural genocide?
pp 1-32
- By Michael Clarke
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Part I: - Context
pp 33-34
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2 - Echoes from the past: Repression in the Uyghur region now and then
pp 35-60
- By Sandrine Catris
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3 - The Kashgar Dangerous House Reform Programme: Social engineering, ‘a rebirth of the nation’, and a significant building block in China’s creeping genocide
pp 61-89
- By Anna Hayes
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4 - Settler colonialism in the name of counterterrorism: Of ‘savages’ and ‘terrorists’
pp 90-124
- By Sean R. Roberts
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Part II: - Discourses and practices of repression
pp 125-126
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5 - Pathology, inducement, and mass incarcerations of Xinjiang’s ‘targeted population’
pp 127-153
- By Timothy A. Grose, James Leibold
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6 - Two-faced: Turkic Muslim camp workers, subjection, and active witnessing
pp 154-180
- By Darren Byler
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7 - Corrective ‘re-education’ as (cultural) genocide: A content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til Ädäbiyat
pp 181-226
- By Dilmurat Mahmut, Joanne Smith Finley
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8 - Predatory biopolitics: Organ harvesting and other means of monetizing Uyghur ‘surplus’
pp 227-272
- By Matthew P. Robertson
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Part III: - Domestic and international implications
pp 273-274
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9 - ‘Round-the-clock, three-dimensional control’: The evolution and implications of the ‘Xinjiang mode’ of counterterrorism
pp 275-305
- By Michael Clarke
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10 - The effect of Xinjiang’s virtual lockdown on the Uyghur diaspora
pp 306-326
- By Ablimit Baki Elterish
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11 - ‘Window of opportunity’: The Xinjiang emergency in China’s ‘new type of international relations’
pp 327-354
- By David Tobin
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Index
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Contents

Front Matter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Figures and tables
pp ix-ix

Contributors
pp x-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

1 - Framing the Xinjiang emergency: Colonialism and settler colonialism as pathways to cultural genocide?
pp 1-32

Part I: - Context
pp 33-34

2 - Echoes from the past: Repression in the Uyghur region now and then
pp 35-60

3 - The Kashgar Dangerous House Reform Programme: Social engineering, ‘a rebirth of the nation’, and a significant building block in China’s creeping genocide
pp 61-89

4 - Settler colonialism in the name of counterterrorism: Of ‘savages’ and ‘terrorists’
pp 90-124

Part II: - Discourses and practices of repression
pp 125-126

5 - Pathology, inducement, and mass incarcerations of Xinjiang’s ‘targeted population’
pp 127-153

6 - Two-faced: Turkic Muslim camp workers, subjection, and active witnessing
pp 154-180

7 - Corrective ‘re-education’ as (cultural) genocide: A content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til Ädäbiyat
pp 181-226

8 - Predatory biopolitics: Organ harvesting and other means of monetizing Uyghur ‘surplus’
pp 227-272

Part III: - Domestic and international implications
pp 273-274

9 - ‘Round-the-clock, three-dimensional control’: The evolution and implications of the ‘Xinjiang mode’ of counterterrorism
pp 275-305

10 - The effect of Xinjiang’s virtual lockdown on the Uyghur diaspora
pp 306-326

11 - ‘Window of opportunity’: The Xinjiang emergency in China’s ‘new type of international relations’
pp 327-354

Index
pp 355-364

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