Xinjiang Year Zero
Edited by Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini,
and Nicholas Loubere
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‘Xinjiang Year Zero provides an analysis of the processes of dispossession being
experienced by Uyghurs and other indigenous peoples of China’s Uyghur
region that is sorely needed today. Most politicians and their followers today,
whether on the left or the right, view what is happening to the peoples of this
region through a twentieth-century lens steeped in dichotomies that are obsolete in describing the nature of states today—those of capitalism vs socialism
and democracy vs totalitarianism. The contributors to this volume explore
what is happening in Xinjiang in the context of the twenty-first century’s
racialised and populist-fuelled state power, global capitalist exploitation, and
ubiquitous surveillance technology. At the same time, they invite the reader
to reflect on how the processes of dispossession in the Uyghur region during
the twenty-first century are repeating the colonial practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that have shaped our current global system of
inequality and oppression. The result offers an analysis of what is happening
in Xinjiang that emphasises its interconnectedness to what is happening
around us everywhere in the world. If you believe that the repression in this
region is a fabrication to ‘manufacture consent’ for a cold war between the
“West” and China, you need to read this book. Afterwards, you will understand that if you want to stop a return to the twentieth-century geopolitical
conflicts embodied in the idea of a cold war, you must establish solidarity
with the Indigenous peoples of China’s northwest and call for the end to the
global processes fuelling their dispossession both inside China and outside.’
—Sean R. Roberts, Director of International Development Studies, The
George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and
author of The War on the Uyghurs
‘Xinjiang Year Zero provides a highly readable and utterly necessary account of
what is happening in Xinjiang and why. By showing how the mass detentions
of Uyghurs and other Xinjiang Muslims are linked to both global capitalism and histories of settler colonialism, the edited book offers new ways of
understanding the situation and thus working toward change. A must-read
not only for those interested in contemporary China, but also for anyone
who cares about digital surveillance and dispossession around the globe.’
—Emily T. Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Taming Tibet:
Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
‘The crisis in Xinjiang has engendered its own crisis of interpretation and
action at a time of growing geopolitical rivalry: how to condemn the atrocities
without supporting hawkish voices, particularly among US politicians, who
seek to Cold War-ise the US relationship with “Communist China”? How to
critique China for colonialism, racism, assimilationism, extra-legal internment,
and coerced labour when many Western nations are built on a history of those
same things? Xinjiang Year Zero not only provides non-specialists a thorough,
readable, up-to-date account of events in Xinjiang. This much-needed book
also offers a broader framing of the crisis, drawing comparisons to settler
colonialism elsewhere and revealing direct connections to global capitalism
and to the rise of technological surveillance everywhere.’
—James A. Millward, Georgetown University, author of
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
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Contents
Preface 1
Andrea Pitzer
Xinjiang year zero: An introduction 7
Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere
Part I: Discursive roots 17
1
Nation-building as epistemic violence 19
Ye Hui
2
Revolution and state formation as oasis storytelling in Xinjiang 31
Zenab Ahmed
3
Blood lineage 41
Guldana Salimjan
4
Good and bad Muslims in Xinjiang 51
David Brophy
5
Imprisoning the open air: Preventive policing as community detention
in northwestern China 65
Darren Byler
Part II: Settler colonialism 75
6
Oil and water 77
Tom Cliff
7
Recruiting loyal stabilisers: On the banality of carceral colonialism
in Xinjiang 95
Guldana Salimjan
8
Triple dispossession in northwestern China 105
Sam Tynen
9
Replace and rebuild: Chinese colonial housing in Uyghur
communities 117
Timothy A. Grose
10
The spatial cleansing of Xinjiang: Mazar desecration in context 127
Rian Thum
11
Camp land: Settler ecotourism and Kazakh removal
in contemporary Xinjiang 145
Guldana Salimjan
12
Factories of Turkic Muslim internment 163
Darren Byler
Part III: Global connections 173
13
The global age of the algorithm: Social credit, Xinjiang,
and the financialisation of governance in China 175
Nicholas Loubere and Stefan Brehm
14
Surveillance, data police, and digital enclosure in
Xinjiang’s ‘Safe Cities’ 183
Darren Byler
15
Transnational carceral capitalism and private paramilitaries
in Xinjiang and beyond 205
Gerald Roche
16
Chinese feminism, Tibet, and Xinjiang 211
Séagh Kehoe
17
China: Xinjiang :: India: Kashmir 219
Nitasha Kaul
Conclusion 231
Darren Byler, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere
Appendix: Xinjiang timeline 235
Author biographies 253
Bibliography 257
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