Full Description
Uyghur Identity and Culture brings together the work of scholars, activists, and native Uyghurs to explore the history and growing challenges that the Uyghur diaspora face across the globe in response to shifting government policies forbidding many forms of cultural expression in their homeland.
The collection examines how and why the Uyghur diaspora, dispersed from their homeland to communities across Australia, Central Asia, Europe, Japan, Türkiye, and North America, now has the responsibility to preserve their language and cultural traditions so that these can be shared with future generations. The book critically investigates the government censorship of Uyghur literatures and Western media coverage of the Uyghurs, while centralizing real reflections of those who grew up in the Uyghur homeland. It considers the geographical and psychological pressures that the Uyghur diaspora endure and highlights the resilience and creativity of their relentless battle against cultural erosion.
Uyghur Identity and Culture is a key contribution to diaspora literature and calls to attention the urgent need for global action on the ongoing human rights violations against the Uyghur people. It is essential reading for those interested in the history and struggles of the Uyghur diaspora as well as anyone studying sociology, race, migration, culture, and human rights studies.
Contents
1. Introduction: Maintaining Cultural Identity in a Changing Political Landscape Part I: Cultural Erosion and Identity 2. Promoting, Then Censoring Uyghurness in PRC Uyghur Language Cookbooks, 1984-2021 3. Uyghur-Chinese Mandarin Code-Switching and Government Censorship in an Online Show: Anar Pishti 4. Lost in Different Scripts Part II: Cultural Resilience and Identity 5. A Transnational Perspective on Uyghur Cultural Maintenance and Preservation 6. Role of Teaching Uyghur Language in Shaping Cultural Identity of Children of Uyghur Diaspora 7. "It is So Painful Not to Have a Country": Challenges and Dilemmas of Uyghur immigrants in Canada 8. Freire's Critical Literacy as a Tool for Public Pedagogy in Uyghur Diaspora Cyberspace: A Case Study of Two Uyghur YouTubers Part III: Politics and Identity 9. Survivor Guilt among Uyghurs in the Diaspora 10. Family or Freedom: The changing landscape of Uyghur diaspora activism 11. Türkiye's Official and Public Response to the Uyghur Issue 12. Conclusion: Ensuring the Resilience and Vitality of Uyghur Lifeways and Language in Diaspora
