Wednesday, October 5, 2022

The art of protest in Hong Kong

Two photos from recent cycles of the annual Art-Prize held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Click the image itself for a full-size view of the file, or use the bottom right corner Download button to appreciate the artist detail.


and from this past week in 2022 by J. Chan, https://flickr.com/photos/anthroview/52367693076/

Thinking about the connections between art and protest, there are several dimensions that come to mind to begin with. 
Maybe readers have these and more experiences to add, too.

<>art as protest (instrumental) medium to get a response; also as outlet for aspiration, frustration, suffering, and so on
<>art as protest (representational) recording or mirror to show self and others what is taking place
<>art as irony or means of inverting meanings (taking powerholders' art and using it for protestor purposes)
<>art as emblem or badge for those who protest (asserting identity of the group/community)
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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Recent publications on Xinjiang genocide

"Forum: The Uighur Population in China and R2P: Pursuing Accountability and Protection for the Uighur and Muslim Minorities in China." By Jacob, Cecilia; Adrian Gallagher, and Charles T. Hunt. _Global Responsibility to Protect_ 13 (2021), 5-8. https://brill.com/view/journals/gr2p/13/1/gr2p.13.issue-1.xml

This forum contains seven more articles, as below. -some PDFs are open access, some require login.

Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang
Author: Michael Clarke
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 9–19
Online Publication Date: 16 Feb 2021
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Atrocity Crimes in Xinjiang: Moving beyond Legal Labels
Author: Sophie Ryan
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 20–23
Online Publication Date: 16 Feb 2021
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China and the Uighurs: Options for Legal Accountability
Author: Andrew Garwood-Gowers
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 24–28
Online Publication Date: 16 Feb 2021
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R2P Sidelined: The International Response to China's Repression of Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang
Author: Rosemary Foot
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 29–32
Online Publication Date: 16 Feb 2021
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United Nations' Response to Mass Atrocities in China
Author: Nadira Kourt
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 33–36
Online Publication Date: 16 Feb 2021
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Rescuing Humanitarian Intervention from Liberal Hegemony
Author: Thomas Peak
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 37–59
Online Publication Date: 30 Nov 2020
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R2P and Prevention: The International Community and Its Role in the Determinants of Mass Atrocity
Authors: Alexandra Bohm and Garrett Wallace Brown
Global Responsibility to Protect 13 (2021), 60–95
Online Publication Date: 08 Dec 2020

--[see also this] review of Mamtimin Ala's book Worse Than Death, mentioning a few other books on the genocide also written by Uyghurs or Kazakhs, appeared yesterday in the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, https://www.svd.se/a/a75x6a/ett-pagaende-folkmord-som-hela-kina-appladerar [in Swedish, but amenable to translate.google.com].
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

writing on Xinjiang lately

Just published (Feb 2022, with D. Mahmut): 'Corrective "re-education" as (cultural) genocide: a content analysis of the Uyghur primary school textbook Til-Ädäbiyat. In The Xinjiang Emergency. Manchester University Press.

 

Book chapter (Nov 2021): '"Turning Sheep into Tigers": State Securitization of Islam, Societal Insecurity and Conflict in Xinjiang, China.' In The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia. Edinburgh University Press.

 

Reflection in Journal of Genocide Research (2020): 'Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang'.

Article in Space & Society (2020, with O.Klimes): 'China's Neo-Totalitarian Turn and Genocide in Xinjiang'.    

 

Guest-edited Special Issue of Central Asian Survey (2019): 'Securitization, Insecurity and Conflict in Contemporary Xinjiang'. 

 

Brill monograph (2013): The Art of Symbolic Resistance: Uyghur Identities and Uyghur-Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang.

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