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Darren Byler on Terror Capitalism and Digital Control in Xinjiang – The Wire China

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[Solar Suppliers] Darren Byler is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. An anthropologist and author, his research has focused on the dispossession of stateless populations — particularly Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang — through contemporary capitalism, digital infrastructure and colonialism. He is the author of In The Camps: China’s High Tech Penal Colony (October 2021) and Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (2022). Darren Byler. Illustration by Lauren Crow Q: First I would like to ask about the current state of Xinjiang. There was a recent AP report that described a normalization of fear…

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