The great dispossession : Uyghurs between civilizations / Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Chris Hann

Englisch

Münster ; Zürich : LIT, 2020

xiv, 273 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

978-3-643-91367-8 pb

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-3-643-91367-3 (Fernzugriff) PDF

9783643913678

*China / Sinkiang / Uiguren / Ethnologie

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have worked since 1986, has become increasingly unstable in recent decades. The Uyghurs are the easternmost people of the Turkic-Islamic civilizational belt that stretches across Central Eurasia. The incorporation of this population into the Chinese nation state has been fraught with difficulty. Central policies under socialism have fluctuated between generous encouragement of a distinct Uyghur identity and harsh repression justified with accusations of separatism and religious fundamentalism. Based on field research in the prefecture of Qumul in 2006-2009, this book explores how macro-level tensions are played out locally and regionally in the fields of actualized history and identity, social support and economic development, and the political regulation of socio-cultural life and religion.

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