The art of symbolic resistance [Elektronisk resurs] Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations in contemporary Xinjiang / by Joanne Smith Finley.

• Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Structure of the Book; PART ONE; THE ART OF SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE; Introduction; Scholarship on China's Minority Nationalities; Scholarship on the Contemporary Uyghurs; Identity from a Minority Perspective; Sartrean Notions of We-hood and Us-hood; The Art of Symbolic Resistance: From Cultural to Religious Symbols; A Brief Political History; Chapter One; Inequalities: The Socio-Economic Backdrop; 1.1. Han In-migration; 1.2. Language Policy; 1.3. Education; 1.4. Employment; 1.5. Wealth Distribution; 1.6. Resource Exploitation. 
• 1.7. Political RepresentationConclusion: Development - Equality = Conflict; PART TWO; SOUNDS OF DISCONTENT; Chapter Two; Stereotypes: talk breeds conflict; 2.1. Social Stereotypes: Theoretical Frame; 2.2. Theorising Han Chauvinism: The 'Civilising Project'; 2.3. Different Ways of Seeing: Counter-stereotypes; 2.4. Common Heritage: Foundations of Counter-stereotypes; 2.5. Stereotypes relating to Uyghur Cultural Norms; 2.6. Stereotypes relating to Islamic Social Practices; 2.7. Stereotypes relating to Colonisation and Exploitation. 
• Conclusion: Talk Breeds Conflict (or the Power of Oral Complaint)Chapter Three; Making culture matter: symbolic, spatial, and social boundaries; 3.1. Barthian Theory: Ethnic Boundaries as Resistance; 3.2. Symbolic Boundaries; 3.3. Spatial Boundaries; 3.4. Social Boundaries; 3.5. The Consequences of Boundary-crossing: Bus Stories and Street Fights; 3.6. Managed Interaction; Conclusion: The Roots of Constructed Segregation; Chapter Four; Illuminists: Popular song and the waking of the Uyghur nation; 4.1. The Musician-comprador; 4.2. Popular Singers as Illuminists: The Advent of 'New Folk'. 
• 4.3. Cassette Culture and Mass Mediation of Political Messages4.4. Ömärjan Alim: The People's Choice; 4.5. Abdurehim Heyit: The Intellectuals' Choice; 4.6. Religious and Class Cleavages; Conclusion: New Folk as a Locus of Solidarity and Disunity; PART THREE; 'SILENCE': AFTER THE 1997 GHULJA DISTURBANCES; Chapter Five; Reverts: sources and dynamics of Islamic renewal; Introduction; 5.1. Islamic Renewal in Ürümchi since the Late 1990s; 5.2. Globalising Forces: Border Trade, Pilgrimage, Study Abroad and News Media; 5.3. Islam as Symbolic Resistance against Perceived Oppression of Muslims. 
• 5.4. Islam as a Response to Failed Development5.5. Islam as an Egalitarian Ethos; 5.6. Islam as a Response to Frustrated Ethno-political Aspirations; 5.7. Modernity and the Return to Cultural 'Purity'; 5.8. Islam as a Vehicle for Personal and National Reform; 5.9. Internal Divisions within the Uyghur Muslim Population; Conclusion: 'All Five Digits on one Hand are not Alike'; Chapter Six; Endogamists: gender, nation and a selective taboo; 6.1. The Statistics on Intermarriage; 6.2. Parental Prohibition and Excommunication; 6.3. Community Supervision. 
• 6.4. Perceived Barriers: Racial, Cultural, Religious, Historical, Political. 

• The Art of Symbolic Resistance provides a longitudinal study of Uyghur-Han relations. Based on locally conducted interviews, Smith Finley argues that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and common enmity towards the Han Chinese. 

Ämnesord

Uigurer  (sao)

Etnicitet  (sao)

Relationer till myndigheter  (sao)

Etniska relationer  (sao)

Uighur (Turkic people)  -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Ethnic identity. (LCSH)

Uighur (Turkic people)  -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Government relations. (LCSH)

Government, Resistance to  -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. (LCSH)

Ethnicity  (LCSH)

Ethnic relations  (LCSH)

Uighur (Turkic people)  (LCSH)

Kina  (sao)

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)  -- Ethnic relations. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

305.894323 (DDC)

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