Routledge - Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Xinjiang

Explore a deep academic investigation into the political and social dynamics of the Xinjiang region. This book examines how Uyghur ethnic identity, religion, and violent conflict became defined as a terrorism problem by the Chinese state. By using securitization theory and Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS), the text provides a way to understand how threats are constructed through historical and discursive processes. Readers will find a detailed look at violent events reported in Xinjiang starting from the early 1980s. The work tracks how evolving discourse patterns have shaped the current understanding of the region. It is a necessary resource for those studying the scholarly debates on the definition of terrorism and the historical processes of threat construction in modern China.