Darren Byler | Terror Capitalism in Northwest China
Anthropologist Darren Byler is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia and a post-doctoral research fellow in the China Made Project at the Center for Asian Studies, CU Boulder. His teaching and research examines the dispossession of stateless populations through forms of contemporary capitalism and colonialism in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of a forthcoming ethnography titled Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2021) and a narrative-driven book titled In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia Global Reports 2021).
Further Reading:
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press, November 2021).
In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia University Global Reports, October 2021).
"Because There Were Cameras, I Didn’t Ask Any Questions" (ChinaFile, December 2020)
"Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped" (The Guardian, July 2020)
"Ghost World" (Logic Magazine, May 2019).
"Violent Paternalism: On the Banality of Uyghur Unfreedom" (The Asia Pacific Journal, 2018)