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Terror Capitalism

Terror Capitalism

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In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the regional capital Ürümchi, Byler shows how media infrastructures, the state’s enforcement of “Chinese” cultural values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men—who are the primary target of state violence—and how they develop masculinities and homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered, ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a colonial relation of domination. Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, showing how it has led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethno-racialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Darren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University. Note on Language  vii
Note on Pseudonyms  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. What is Terror Capitalism?  1
1. Enclosure  31
2. Devaluation  61
3. Dispossession  95
4. Friendship  133
5. Minor Politics  163
6. Subtraction  189
Conclusion  221
Notes  231
References  243
Index  261
 

“Darren Byler’s Terror Capitalism provides critical insights into one of the most important and contested topics in international human rights. Drawing on an extensive archive of firsthand research, Byler gives a rich and detailed look at the persecution and cultural genocide of the Uyghur. An indispensable resource for studies in human rights, surveillance, China, Muslims, Islamophobia, capitalism, and more.”
“Spelling out the full spectrum of what dispossession means for Uyghurs, Darren Byler offers a fine balance between political passion and scholarship as well as an important self-reflexivity about the role of an ethnographer in a context full of violence and terror. There is so little on what Uyghurs are going through, and it is vital that this information be made public. Terror Capitalism is one of the few works that bring such complex understanding to the situation in Xinjiang.”
"Remarkable … compelling … offers an important contribution for specialists and graduate students."
"There are many reasons to recommend Terror Capitalism, and not least for the way it gives voice to so many different Uyghurs, a people often reduced either to an abstract entity or a lone voice of victimhood."
"Byler’s pioneering work vividly conveys the suffering that individuals experience under the regime’s policies in Xinjiang"
"Some of the stories Byler’s book recalls read like a scene straight out of Kafka’s The Trial. . . . The author’s attention to detail and commitment to thorough research is excellent."
"Byler has written the definitive ethnography of the Uyghurs in the 2010s, a decade of increasing desperation."
"Darren Byler’s ethnography is an invaluable contribution, as he provides a rare micro, ground-level view of events and Uyghur social life in the past decade. His storytelling brilliantly plugs the reader into his characters’ internal life and offers a remarkable insight into the Uyghur experience. He is also successful in his attempt to provide a refined, balanced and thorough scholarly analysis of the current crisis—with carefully chosen words and ethnographic vignettes. Byler’s book is therefore a powerful tribute to his informants, Han or Uyghur, and to all those who suffer from Beijing’s oppressive policies in the region."

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