From Behind Black Bars: Productive Redactions and Mass Incarceration in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, 2017–2022

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Title	From Behind Black Bars
Subtitle	Productive Redactions and Mass Incarceration in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, 2017–2022
Contributor	Alessandro Rippa(author)
Contributor	Rune Steenberg(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.16
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Alessandro Rippa, Rune Steenberg
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2024-10-27
Long abstract	The documentation, management of data, and influencing of public understanding regarding the severe expansion of a system of prisons and camps in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2017, has over the past years become a contested field. While there can be no doubt that the Chinese government is the largest redactor of information on Xinjiang, Western news outlets as well as Uyghur activist organizations also increasingly choose to filter and redact the information that they make public. Evidences of releases and changes in the camp system are being systematically ignored or underreported and increasing pressure is mounting on researchers to mainly deliver “ideologically sound” facts – from circles loyal to Beijing and Washington, respectively. This chapter seeks to comprehensively draw up these diverse vectors of pressure and the practices of redaction they provoke. Employing redaction as a conceptual tool to address both the destructive and constructive elements of editing, cutting, leaving information out, and consciously selecting frames for comparison and contextualization, we attend to both the political and ideological relevance of such acts. We draw our data from years of fieldwork in the region, on interviews with scholars and activists as well as on the reflection of our experience as scholars of China and Xinjiang.
Page range	pp. 221–234
Print length	14 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	Xinjiang China redaction censorship re-education camps
Funding	Government of the Czech Republic Programme: OP JAK Project: MSCA Fellowships at Palacký University I Grant: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0002593
Funding	European Union Project: Horizon Europe Grant: 101079460-REMOTEXUAR-HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03

Contributors

Alessandro Rippa

(author)

Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Oslo

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9533-3988

Alessandro Rippa is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, and project director at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich. He is the author of Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (2018).

Rune Steenberg

(author)

Palacký University, Olomouc

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4156-9415

Rune Steenberg is an anthropologist working on Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Uyghurs. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in XUAR, Central Asia, China, and Indonesia and published widely on topics ranging from kinship to cross border trade, informality, corruption, narratives, and mass incarceration. He received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in 2014 and is currently a researcher at Palacký University Olomouc. Since 2018 he has also been working as an Uyghur interpreter for asylum seekers, activists, journalists, and human rights organizations and has participated in several documentary films on the tragedies in XUAR.