In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang.
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..
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.
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 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.
In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang
