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Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Uyghur Region: The Terroristization of Xinjiang

Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Uyghur Region: The Terroristization of Xinjiang

Rodríguez-Merino, Pablo A.

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Series: Interventions

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1032311037
ISBN13: 9781032311036
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book investigates how Uyghur-related violent conflict and Uyghur ethnic minority identity, religion, and the Xinjiang region, more broadly, became constituted as a 'terrorism' problem for the Chinese state.

Building on securitization theory, Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS), and the scholarly definitional debate on terrorism, it develops the concept of terroristization as a critical analytical framework for the study of historical processes of threat construction. Investigating the violent events reported in Xinjiang since the early 1980s, the evolving discursive patterns used by the Chinese state to make sense of violent incidents, and the crackdown policies that the official terrorism discourse has legitimized, the book demonstrates how the securitization, and later terroristization, of Xinjiang and the Uyghurs, is the result of a discursive and political choice of the Chinese state. The author reveals the contingent and unstable nature of such construction, and how it problematizes the inevitability of the rationale behind China's 'war on terror', that has prescribed a brutal crackdown as the most viable approach to governing the tensions that have historically characterized China's rule over the Turkic Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

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