On Wednesday 15 December 2021, we hosted a book talk on Zoom with Darren Byler, anthropologist and Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University. Darren presented his two recently published books, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony, and Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City, both of which draw on a decade of ethnographic research in and on Xinjiang, a north-western province of China. Within the last decade Xinjiang has become known as the most surveilled territory in the world, and while the subject matter can be affectively challenging at times, we were honoured to host Darren for the inaugural event in our new event series to learn more about these developments.

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Hosted by: Deniz Yonucu, Vita Peacock, and Rune Steenberg

Music: Verdächtig by System Absturz (CC)

Sound Editing and Artwork: Kate Davis

Under Surveillance Ep.05 with Katherine Verdery

Under SurveillanceBy ANSUR (The Anthropology of Surveillance Network)Aug 15, 2023