{"product_id":"uyghur-women-activists-in-the-diaspora","title":"Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003enarrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eengagement. \u003c\/b\u003eBorn and raised in East Turkestan\/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s, each woman, after personally experiencing incidents of ethnic discrimination, chose to leave China before 2005. Settling in a western country, they strive to become the voice of the Turkic people who are silenced or detained in the “re-education” camps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narratives are based on interviews conducted online between 2020 and 2021, collected as a form of oral history. The book focuses on the escalating tensions, turning points experienced in their youth, and the religious, political and psychological factors that prompted their transformations in self-identity, ideology and the emergence of a new Uyghur–Muslim feminism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the women’s stories, the book describes how women activists are navigating the competing reality constructions of the dire situation in the Uyghur Homeland and actively restorying a genocide to bring about social and political change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55021813858648,"sku":"9781350418370","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350418370_d5f984fa-1cf4-4d8a-a09c-cbab5f77388e.jpg?v=1765740641","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/uyghur-women-activists-in-the-diaspora","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}