Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora

Restorying a Genocide

von Abdulmuqtedir Udun, Susan J. Palmer, Dilmurat Mahmut

174 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube
• ISBN: 9781350418370
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2025
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic