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

by Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032311037
• ISBN13: 9781032311036
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"