Episode 6 - A Critical Global Perspective on the Uyghur Regions

In this episode, Darren Byler (sociocultural anthropologist) and Rune Steenberg (Principal Investigator of the REMOTE XUAR project) speak about the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region also known as East Turkistan in the 21st century. Building on their own fieldwork in the 2010s, they discuss the turning points of the Ürümchi violence in 2009, the People's War on Terror from 2014 and the mass incarceration and re-education campaigns from 2017. These developments are seen in a global perspective of colonialism, capitalism, neo-liberalism, Islamophobia, surveillance and rising authoritarianism. Darren Byler offers a much needed left-critical frame of analysis to understand this context often misused for geo-political purposes on all sides.

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