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.
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Em Terror Capitalism, Darren Byler teoriza a colonização contemporânea dos uigures na região autônoma de Xinjiang, relacionando a detenção em massa em campos de reeducação com processos de extração de recursos em terras uigures. Byler descreve como infraestruturas de mídia, a imposição de valores culturais identificados como 'chineses' e o afluxo de assentamentos han contribuem para a desapossessão dos uigures e sua expulsão de Ürümchi. Ao focalizar jovens homens uigures, o autor analisa as masculinidades e as amizades homossociais que se formam como respostas à violência de caráter etnoracial, de vigilância e econômico.
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