Fear, Hope and Survival in Xinjiang - Uyghur Life in China's Military Police State

In this book Sam Tynen, one of the last Uyghur-speaking ethnographers to do embedded fieldwork in Xinjiang, chronicles the Chinese government''s escalation of state terror and political control over the region and its citizens, describing the increase in surveillance, securitization, and militarization of everyday life. Using government documents, and their own observations and interviews, they describe neighbourhood-level policing and a bureaucracy that systematically tracks and records the poorest and most vulnerable people, and has led to the detainment of members of the native Uyghur community for mass internment. Tynen also delves into the everyday lives of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang - describing how they have found spaces of resistance and freedom amidst state oppression. Tynen also shares groundbreaking insight into minority experiences amongst the Uyghurs themselves - particularly women and queer people - who face exclusion and marginalization, not only by the Chinese state, but also by Uyghur society itself. The rich ethnographic detail of this study presents a story of how a people united and divided by inequality, and driven by fear and hope, resist and endure in a military police state.>

Product details

• Authors: S E Tynen, S.E. Tynen, Sam Tynen, Sarah Tynen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.03.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9780755636020
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-3602-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Xinjiang, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Islamic Life & Practice, Political oppression and persecution, Indigenous people: governance and politics