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Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China

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Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China Articles

Uyghur Religious Heritage under China’s “Anti-Religious Extremism” Campaigns

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Rachel Harris
May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

China argues that government management of Uyghur culture is necessary to protect it from religious extremism. In fact the biggest threats to Uyghur heritage and culture are the policies of the Chinese government itself.

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Uyghur Oppression from a Decolonial Perspective

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Chiara Olivieri
March 5, 2021

Since post-colonial times have not (yet) come for the Uyghurs, a decolonial approach to the Uyghur issue must start by assuming the colonial nature of the relations between the Chinese nation-state and both the Uyghurs and their homeland.

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Whose People? The Oppression of Uyghurs and the Idea of the Muslim World

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Perin Gürel
February 19, 2021

Public callouts against Muslim-majority countries’ silence on Uyghur oppression demonstrate how normative ideas about “the Muslim World” and monolithic ideas about Islam in politics continue to prevail at multiple discursive levels despite vast evidence of the heterogeneity of the politics of Muslim-majority countries.

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Religion, Uyghurs, and the Global War on Terror

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Kristian Petersen
February 11, 2021

While the Uyghur crisis doesn’t revolve solely around Islamic identity and practice, the category “religion” provides an organizing framework that the People’s Republic of China utilizes to justify its continued oppression of the community.

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