Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide

The book explores the life stories of ten Uyghur women who have experienced ethnic discrimination and political engagement, using narrative analysis to understand their changing worldviews and conversions. It highlights the escalating tensions, turning points, and religious, political, and psychological factors that prompted their transformations. The narratives are based on interviews conducted online between 2020 and 2021 and focus on the women's efforts to become the voice of the Turkic people and restory a genocide to bring about social and political change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book employs narrative analysis to delve into their evolving worldviews and political activism. These women, born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang during the 1970s-90s, each faced incidents of ethnic discrimination before leaving 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 online interviews conducted between 2020 and 2021, serving as a form of oral history. The book centers on the escalating tensions, pivotal moments in their youth, and the religious, political, and psychological factors that shaped their transformations in self-identity, ideology, and the emergence of a new Uyghur-Muslim feminism. Through the women's stories, the book portrays how female activists are navigating the competing realities of the dire situation in the Uyghur Homeland and actively rewriting a genocide to bring about social and political change.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350418332