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Native rhythms in the city: embodied refusal among Uyghur male migrants in Ürümchi.
- Source :
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Central Asian Survey . Jun2018, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p191-207. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Over the past two decades, state-directed Han settlement and capitalist development in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central Asia have uprooted thousands of Uyghurs, causing them to move to the city. In this article, I explore how low-income male Uyghur migrants and Uyghur culture producers build a durable existence despite these challenges. Based on analysis of migrant responses to the Uyghur-language urban fiction and indigenous music as well as ethnographic observations of Uyghur migrants from Southern Xinjiang, I argue that indigenous knowledge provides underemployed male Uyghurs a means to refuse the alienating effects of settler colonialism and economic development. By broadening the scope of what counts as ‘resistance’ to Chinese attempts to eliminate aspects of Uyghur society, I show that ‘refusal’ can be a generative way of embodying sovereignty, particularly when confronted by structural violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02634937
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Central Asian Survey
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 129510433
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2017.1410468