Darren Byler on the mass detention and surveillance of the Uyghurs

Bio: Assistant Professor Darren Byler is a sociocultural anthropologist whose teaching and research examines the dispossession of stateless populations through forms of contemporary capitalism and colonialism in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Read More

Articles:

October 23, 2021: China’s internment camps in Xinjiang are a horror. Survivors and participants alike must reconcile with the truth (Globe and Mail)

October 12, 2021: How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy (The Nation)

October 12, 2021: The “phone disaster” (Rest of World)

October 11, 2021: The covid tech that is intimately tied to China’s surveillance state (MIT Technology Review)

Book Reviews:

March 3, 2022: In a Landlocked Region: The urgency of Xinjiang (Literary Review of Canada)

January 7, 2022: Guinea pigs for dystopia (The Times Literary Review)

January 3, 2022: Book review: In the Camps by Darren Byler (Chinaworker.info)

Media Mentions:

March 1, 2022: Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State (Literary Review UK)

February 21, 2022: "They Could Watch Everything We Did": Video Surveillance Against Uyghurs Inside And Outside The Camps (IVPM)

February 17, 2022: China's high-tech repression of Uyghurs is more sinister — and lucrative — than it seems, anthropologist says (CBC Radio- Ideas)

February 18, 2022: Olympic sponsor Airbnb profits from Xinjiang, Tibet listings (The Daily Mail)

February 16, 2022: Suspicion and subjugation in Xinjiang (The New Statesman)

February 8, 2022: International pressure accelerates shift to ‘other forms of control’ in Xinjiang, expert says (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

February 5, 2022: What message did China send by choosing Uyghur torchbearer? (Associated Press)

February 5, 2022: Uyghurs reveal what it's like in a Chinese prison (The Telegraph)

February 4, 2022: Three Books on Hong Kong and China’s Crackdown on Democracy (The Wall Street Journal)

January 29, 2022: Pre-crime has arrived in China (The Spectator)

January 28, 2022: China’s plan for Xinjiang, plus what’s lurking in your household dust? The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript (The Conversation)

December 25, 2021: Xi Jinping's Xinjiang Paradox: An interview with Darren Byler on his latest book, In the Camps: China’s Hi-Tech Penal Colony (The Georgia Straight)

December 17, 2021: China vows to respond after US enacts Xinjiang sanctions (Associated Press)

December 10, 2021: ‘This is our voice’: The Uyghur traditions being erased by China’s cultural crackdown (The Gaurdian)

November 30, 2021: Exploring China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (The Cipher Brief)

October 30, 2021: Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs (The Economist)

October 14, 2021: Inside China's high-tech penal colony with Darren Byler: podcast and transcript (MSNBC)

October 12, 2021: Darren Byler on Life in Xinjiang, ‘China’s High-Tech Penal Colony’ (The Diplomat)

August 23, 2021: Zero Blind Spots: A Conversation with Darren Byler on Chinese Surveillance Tactics (Los Angeles Review of Books)

August 10, 2021: Genetic papers containing data from China’s ethnic minorities draw fire (Science)

July 21, 2021: Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center (The Associated Press)

July 14, 2021: One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps (The Atlantic)

April 5, 2021: Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang (The New Yorker)

March 30, 2021: Trudeau defends his effort to ban Chinese goods made with forced labour (The Globe and Mail)

March 29, 2021: Canadians can buy Xinjiang cotton products despite Ottawa’s vow to stop forced labour imports (The Globe and Mail)

March 25, 2021: Global brands address forced labor in China, but risk alienating Chinese consumers (Marketplace)

March 7, 2021: Amazon suppliers linked to forced labor in China, watchdog group says (NBC News)