Securitization, insecurity and conflict in contemporary Xinjiang: has PRC counter-terrorism evolved into state terror?

Smith, Finley

doi:10.1080/02634937.2019.1586348

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“…Not forgetting either, now that mobile phones have been dropped conveniently into everyone’s pockets, the recent required downloading and daily use by all party members themselves of the Xi Jinping Thought app (Kuo and Lyons, 2019). In some spheres where high-tech reconnaissance and tracking has been deployed—as in the surveillance of Uighurs, their mass forced detentions and re-education, the destruction of mosques, and other measures adopted by Beijing to suppress Muslim culture and belief—the condemnation from abroad has been pronounced, although not always as strongly voiced by other Muslim leaders or complicit corporate interests around the world as might have been expected (Feng, 2018; “China’s global power damps criticism of Uighur crackdown,” 2019; Wee and Mozur, 2019; Smith Finley, 2019).…”

Section: Times and Spaces Of The Prcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule

Shue

2022

Modern China

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This analysis aims to place certain key elements of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule observed under Xi Jinping today into longer and fuller historical perspective. It highlights trademark CCP practices of ordering space, marking time, potent political messaging, and vigorous propaganda diffusion as these have evolved over many years up to the present, reconsidering these in light of early Chinese cosmological thought and later symbolic practices of empire.

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Section: Times and Spaces Of The Prcmentioning

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Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule

Shue

2022

Modern China

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“…As the Chinese state has intensified its drive to transform Uyghurs, efforts to reform the education system are shaped by the simultaneous criminalization of Uyghur language instruction. This process of intentional Uyghur cultural erasure turns Chinese instruction into a technique of subordination (Smith Finley 2019). In group and individual interviews in our research sample in 2015, we found that even prior to this overt criminalization, many Uyghur students were already ideologically as well as emotionally opposed to learning Chinese even though there were economic benefits to Chinese proficiency.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead of including English as a foreign language as a component in the school curriculum, Uyghur classrooms have become the site of increased Chinese language instruction. Due to state education ideology, Uyghur medium instruction is being largely eliminated and the English language is being excluded (Smith Finley 2019). While discrete Uyghur literature classes, taught in Chinese, are permitted at times, in most cases Uyghur students are forced to show high levels of proficiency in Chinese before they are permitted to join Han classmates in English courses.…”

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Alienation and Educational “Third Space”: English Learning and Uyghur Subject Formation in Xinjiang, China

Byler

2022

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2011 and 2018, this article examines howUyghurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in China, found ways to excel in English language learning despite efforts by the national education system to focus their training in Chinese, the language of the colonizer. It argues that the alienation that resulted from the devaluation of Uyghur knowledge and nonstandard Chinese usage pushed Uyghur students to embody expanded subjectivities in a "third space" of English learning. It concludes with a discussion of how an internment camp system has foreclosed this space of limited autonomy for Uyghur students since 2017. [Alienation, third space, Uyghur, English learning, China]In 2004, English learning among Uyghurs took center stage. When Kasimjan Abdurehim, the founder of the private English school Atlan, won the Audience Choice Award in the Chinese national English-speaking contest, Uyghurs across the country took notice. They saw how he had highlighted his ethnic and cultural difference to his advantage: from the clothes he wore and the story he told to the way he interacted with the audience members and judges. One of their own had succeeded; for a few moments, he had the attention of the nation and he had done it without using wealth and privilege, without giving up his pride in his heritage or toeing the Party line. Since that time, Uyghurs have competed in the final rounds of almost every major English speaking competition in the nation. Although Uyghurs represent less than one percent of China's 1.4 billion population, they proved over and over again that they were able to hold their own with their Han competitors from the best schools in the country. 1 However, Uyghur English learner success began to change in May 2014 when Chinese state authorities declared the "People's War on Terror" and started a mass internment campaign that targeted Uyghur cultural and religious leaders. While initially Uyghurs were allowed to continue English language training schools, by 2017, many of the schools were closed and the instructors had been detained. When Byler visited the region in April 2018, he observed that dozens of our former teaching partners and interviewees had disappeared into a system of "reeducation camps" along with more than 1 million other Uyghurs. Uyghur-managed schools that had enrolled between 8000 and 10,000 students just 2 years before were shuttered, their doors sealed shut by Civil Affairs Ministry workers. He found less than ten remaining artifacts of the vibrant English learning movement in two private book shops that remained open. For instance, in a hidden corner, he spotted a DVD set of lectures from one of the instructors we had interviewed on multiple occasions and whose teaching philosophy and pedagogy shaped the content of this article. His family and friends told us he was taken away in 2017.

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“…Quoted from Human Rights Watch (2019), United Nations experts responded it by issuing critics toward Chinese government's counterterrorism law that is being used to justify violations of basic rights and freedoms in Xinjiang. The counterterrorism program was started since 2014 when local government demand new identity card for Uyghur community (Finley, 2019). The prosses was started by making project of mass interment.…”

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Uyghur and China in The American Media Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CNN News Articles

Prayudha

Fawwaz

2020

Engl. Lang. Teach. Educational. Journal

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This paper analyzes the textual aspects in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) Norman Fairclough model of CNN news discourse about Uyghur issue. When this research is conducted, there are only at least five articles specifically discussing Uyghur issue that are 29th December 2011, 29th February 2012, 29th February 2012, 30th October 2013, and 5th September 2014 publications. The research focuses on analyzing the text representation and the relation between participants in the discourse. Objectives of the paper are: 1) to analyze the text representation of news in the news channel of CNN related to the Uyghur case, and 2) to analyze the relation between participants in the news channel of CNN related to the Uyghur case. The subject of this paper is Uyghur issue as reflected in the news articles of CNN International. The paper applies qualitative descriptive method. As a consequence: CNN often put formality features and a vague vocabulary to block and obscure the negative value from the readers to China. The relation here is presented by CNN to China rather than CNN to Uyghur. It is reflected by the power of the status of China.

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Securitization, insecurity and conflict in contemporary Xinjiang: has PRC counter-terrorism evolved into state terror?

Cited by 78 publications

References 13 publications

Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule

Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule

Alienation and Educational “Third Space”: English Learning and Uyghur Subject Formation in Xinjiang, China

Uyghur and China in The American Media Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CNN News Articles

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