Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora

Name: Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Palmer, Susan J.

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Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques ofnarrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to politicalengagement.Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s, each woman, after personally experiencing incidents of ethnic discrimination, chose to leave China before 2005. Settling in a western country, they strive to become the voice of the Turkic people who are silenced or detained in the "re-education" camps.
The narratives are based on interviews conducted online between 2020 and 2021, collected as a form of oral history. The book focuses on the escalating tensions, turning points experienced in their youth, and the religious, political and psychological factors that prompted their transformations in self-identity, ideology and the emergence of a new Uyghur-Muslim feminism.
Through the women's stories, the book describes how women activists are navigating the competing reality constructions of the dire situation in the Uyghur Homeland and actively restorying a genocide to bring about social and political change.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 174
Release Date:: 2025-11-27
Publication Date:: 2025-11-27
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350418374
ISBN13:: 9781350418370
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 275 g
Height:: 15.6 cm
Width:: 23.4 cm
Thickness:: 1 cm

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