The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs

Roberts, Sean

doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111

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“…While "Internal Orientalism" (Schein, 1997, P. 70) -the discourse that validates the unequal power relations between the majority Han and ethnic minorities in China in terms of their cultures, faiths and education -has always existed among the majority Chinese, and such a discourse has only fortified itself and gained more overt and harsher tones since the turn of the new millennium. As a result, the Islamic identity and education among the Uyghurs have become the focus of attention and questioning in dealing with "terrorism" within the Chinese state (Bovingdon, 2010(Bovingdon, , 2014Roberts, 2016Roberts, , 2018.…”

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“…Since then, the Islamic knowledge, ideology and practices have been increasingly obstructed and subject to questioning in all social spheres, most notably in educational institutions in Xinjiang (Bovingdon, 2010(Bovingdon, , 2014Kanat, 2015;Roberts, 2016Roberts, , 2018. Young people under 18 have been banned from attending mosque prayers, and forbidden to have any religious education in underground madrasas ("China restricts Ramadan," 2016; Morelos, 2014).…”

Section: A Review Of Rhetoric Policies and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism – Case study of the Uyghur Muslims in China

Mahmut

2019

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As a secularist state, China has always been highly sensitive about religious traditions, particularly Islam. During the late 1990s and especially after the 9/11 terrorist events, the government rhetoric has been to equate the Islamic knowledge and identity with violent ethnic separatism, and more recently extremism and terrorism (Roberts, 2016, 2018). Thus, the Uyghurs' right to access Islamic knowledge and practice Islam has been increasingly restricted and diminished (Cook, 2017; Millward, 2018). After reviewing the recent history of Chinese rhetoric and policies regarding the religious education in Xinjiang, this article discusses the possible ramifications of such developments, via the lenses of postcolonialism, the Politics of Recognition (Taylor, 1994), the push and pull factors that trigger radicalization, and religious literacy. Meanwhile, through sharing the perspectives of the Uyghur diaspora in Canada, the author also highlights that current Chinese policies and practices could deepen the "us" vs. "them" dichotomy between the Muslim Uyghurs and the majority Han population as well as the Chinese state, therefore creating more tension in society.

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Section: Perspectives and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism – Case study of the Uyghur Muslims in China

Mahmut

2019

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“…Yet the current practice of religious securitization in Xinjiang far exceeds anything conducted by a Central Asian state in its indiscriminate targeting of Islam per se; and Central Asian actors may continue to resist religious securitization in a way that has become impossible in China. Most scholars agree that Beijing's goal here is to eradicate all possibility of political opposition in Xinjiang once and for all so that it can turn that territory into a stable platform from which to extend its Belt and Road Initiative (Brophy 2018;Clarke 2018aClarke , 2018bKlimeš 2018;Roberts 2018aRoberts , 2018b.…”

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“…The evolution of PRC state discourses of counter-terrorism since 2001 has been examined elsewhere (Clarke 2018a(Clarke , 2018bRoberts 2018aRoberts , 2018b, and I will not revisit the detail here, other than to later highlight the contribution of Pablo Rodriguéz-Merino (in this issue) to that discussion. Briefly, while Chinese officials before 2001 sometimes referred to terrorism as a peripheral security challenge, mainly through Shanghai Cooperation Organization discourses, it was only after 9/11 that Beijing reframed its struggle with Uyghur 'separatism' as one against global terrorism (Clarke 2018a(Clarke , 4-5, 2018bRoberts 2018b, 104).…”

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

Smith

2019

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“…The government is also criminalizing the wearing of veils and other Islam styles such as beard styles, and are using religious ceremony in weddings. The implementation of halal food become one of illegal activities (Roberts, 2018).…”

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Responsibility of People’s Republic of China for Minority Based on ICERD: Uyghur Case

Gunawan

2019

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People's Republic of China is allegedly committed racial discrimination toward Uyghurs for the last few years. Uyghurs is one of the minority ethnics who live in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) China. The Chinese government builds re-education camp for Uyghurs and being detained even imprisoned without a proper legal procedure. The research aims to know the implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the Responsibility to Protect Perspective in Uyghurs case. The study employed normative legal research with Statute Approach and Case Approach. By using qualitative descriptive method, the study elaborated on how China upholds the minority rights through the implementation of ICERD, and how the international law perspective in the context of responsibility to protect Uyghur case is. The result shows that China has not been successfully implementing ICERD toward minority groups because in practice China does racial discrimination toward Uyghurs. Also, China fails to implement the first pillar of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), where China should protect its citizen from any kind of mass atrocity crimes.

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The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs

Cited by 136 publications

References 13 publications

Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism – Case study of the Uyghur Muslims in China

Controlling Religious Knowledge and Education for Countering Religious Extremism – Case study of the Uyghur Muslims in China

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

Responsibility of People’s Republic of China for Minority Based on ICERD: Uyghur Case

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