Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Disparities and Power Struggle in China’s North-West

Alessandra Cappelletti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

317 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-1538-5 (ISBN)

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In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and agricultural land evictions in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By exposing the dynamics of land acquisition and power building in the politically contested space of the region, the author shows how state owned land in a key commercial and cultural hub on the new Silk Road became a commodity, in a context of violent human interactions driven by power. Relying on previously undisclosed material and on a unique field research among farmers and local authorities, the author retraces the steps of Uyghur peasant workers, entangled in a suspended situation between abandoned rural villages, migration and urban alienation, in a book which explores agency in violent processes of social change, and adds concepts and insights to the current knowledge of how we become modern citizens. The microcosm of Kashgar, an oasis-city in Xinjiang, acts as a mirror reflecting socio political dynamics framing people’s identity. Shedding light on one of the most inaccessible region in China, this book is a key read for academics and a broader public willing to get a clearer view of one of the sourest power struggle in the most contested region within the next superpower.

Alessandra Cappelletti is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China. She has a PhD at the Oriental University of Naples and was Joint Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) and at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Research Center for Global Cooperation of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

Introduction.- Previous scholarship, methodology and the concept of development.- Xinjiang Economic Development.- Social development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Walking in Two Worlds: Kashgar and Shihezi.- Land use and acquisition dynamics in Kashgar: power struggles and social change in a contemporary oasis.- Uyghurs vs Uyghurs. Fragmented identities in contemporary Xinjiang.- Conclusions – The CCP and a “bridge society” in XUAR: ethnicity as a tool for social engineering and stratification.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	39 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 317 p. 43 illus., 39 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Ethnic Conflict and Chinese Society • Land Issues in Xinjiang • Socio-economic Development in Xinjiang • Xinjiang and One Belt One Road Initiative • Xinjiang, Urbanization, Land Acquisition and Power Building
ISBN-10	981-15-1538-7 / 9811515387
ISBN-13	978-981-15-1538-5 / 9789811515385
Zustand	Neuware