The Art of Symbolic Resistance Uyghur Identities and Uyghur-Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9004254916
• ISBN-13: 978-9004256781
• Thông tin xuất bản: Brill, 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 460328
• Chủ đề: 1. boundaries; 2. culture; 3. ethnicity; 4. hybridisation; 5. inequality; 6. Central Asia; 7. China; 8. Ethnic groups and multicultural studies; 9. Social discrimination and social justice

Tóm tắt

 Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China's Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic Resistance considers Uyghur identities from a local perspective, based on interviews conducted with group members over nearly twenty years. Smith Finley rejects assertions that the Uyghur ethnic group is a 'creation of the Chinese state', suggesting that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and a more recently evolved sense of common enmity towards the Han. This book advances the discipline in three senses: from a focus on sporadic violent opposition to one on everyday symbolic resistance
  from state to 'local' representations
  and from a conceptualisation of Uyghurs as 'victim' to one of 'creative agent'.