If you don’t know how, just learn: Chinese housing and the transformation of Uyghur domestic space

Grose, Timothy

doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1789686

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“…The 7 While in this investigation I am primarily concerned with the ways in which government-led homestays transgress the apparent boundaries of private family life and subvert kinship ties to oppressive effect, it is important to note that the dynamics of kinship relations and exchanges in Uyghur society in relation to Han society also undermine the success of efforts to foster inter-ethnic unity. This exploration is beyond the scope of the current article; however, I recommend the interested reader consult the writings of Byler (2018a), Steenberg (2021Steenberg ( & 2014, Steenberg and Rippa (2019), Tynen (2019), Grose (2020), and Smith Finley (2013 for closer consideration of these topics.…”

Section: "Becoming Family" In Xinjiangmentioning

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Producing and Transgressing the Family

Wozniak¹

2021

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In China’s Xinjiang Province, narratives of counterterrorism and economic development have accompanied heightened regional and national securitization, including the detainment in “re-education camps” of over one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. Government language policies, technological surveillance, mass detentions, and homestay programmes intended to discipline Uyghurs into ideal political subjects enforce and transgress boundaries between the public and domestic spheres. These strategies of banal masked coercion reinforce norms of kinship and privacy while simultaneously enacting violent transgressive control over the subjects those norms produce. In this paper, I introduce the concept of “surveillance of intimate technologies” to convey how such surveillance strategies afford the creation and maintenance of the kinship relations they simultaneously betray. Intimate technologies such as smartphones become sites of sustaining both social ties and surveillance. Surveillance of intimate technologies also takes the form of government homestay campaigns to enlist over one million representatives of the Chinese state to enter Uyghur homes, act as “relatives”, and monitor Uyghurs for demonstrations of apparent extremism and subversion. I assert that surveillance of intimate technologies perpetuates fantasies of a private, removed, family space while also destabilizing its logics. These apparent perversions of kinship and family structures at once affirm their “valid” and normative modalities and also maintain the state’s appearance as a cohesive actor through demonstration of its reach into a constructed domestic domain.

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Section: "Becoming Family" In Xinjiangmentioning

confidence: 99%

Producing and Transgressing the Family

Wozniak¹

2021

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“…Testimony from those swept up by the campaign who are now living in exile documents the criminalization of numerous other arbitrarily identified behaviours, such as travelling abroad or using a VPN (Roberts, 2020, 205–213). A system of extensive monitoring, both via digital and in‐person means, was constructed to enforce such prohibitions and create an atmosphere of near‐total surveillance (Grose, 2021; Millward, 2018; Roberts, 2018). Violations of these policies have been punished with indefinite detention in internment camps—for the alleged purpose of de‐radicalization—often without first undergoing public trial (Millward, 2018; Phillips, 2018; Roberts, 2020, 212–20).…”

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Good Minzu and bad Muslims: Islamophobia in China's state media

Stroup

2021

Nations and Nationalism

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Since 2014, observers of Chinese society have noted an upsurge in Islamophobic sentiment among China's ethnic majority Han. China's Muslims, in particular those who identify as Hui and Uyghur, report an increase in harassment, both online and in person. This Islamophobic backlash occurs in conjunction with retrenchments by the Chinese state on the right to practice religion. What gives rise to this increase in bigotry? This pilot study examines official discourse about Islam through an inductive analysis of the presentation of Muslims in China's state media. Using a process of constant comparative analysis, I examine the state media's portrayal of Muslims in the flagship newspaper, The People's Daily. Drawing from a sample of 70 articles published between 2014 and 2018, I argue that the party's depiction of Muslim minorities in China emphasizes ethnic rather than religious identities, while coverage of global Islam emphasizes Islam as dangerous and associated with extremism. I contend that such depictions carry the unintended consequence of arousing suspicions about China's Muslims among Han.

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“…Ceux-ci sont contraints de démontrer patriotisme et loyauté au Parti en célébrant la fête du printemps chinoise (chunjie), en promouvant les mariages mixtes -souvent entre jeunes femmes ouïghoures et migrants han -, ou en adoptant des codes sociaux et cultures « appropriés » et « modernes », comme la transformation de leur habitat. Depuis 2018, les Ouïghours du sud de la région sont en effet invités par les autorités à adopter un « nouveau style de vie », « une nouvelle atmosphère » et « un nouvel ordre », ou les « trois nouveaux programmes » (san xin huodong 三新活动), en supprimant par exemple les supa, plateformes surélevées en terres présentes dans toutes l'Asie centrale et dans les maisons ouïghoures, pour installer tables et canapés 17 . Tim Grose, dans le présent numéro (63), se penche également sur la façon sont ces transformations imposées touchent aussi à l'intégrité physique, dans le cadre de campagne « d'embellissement » du corps féminin.…”

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Éditorial. Crise ouïghoure : transformation et reconstruction des identités

Frangville¹,

Heurtebise²

2021

Monde Chinois

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If you don’t know how, just learn: Chinese housing and the transformation of Uyghur domestic space

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Producing and Transgressing the Family

Producing and Transgressing the Family

Good Minzu and bad Muslims: Islamophobia in China's state media

Éditorial. Crise ouïghoure : transformation et reconstruction des identités

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