{"product_id":"uyghur-women-activists-in-the-diaspora-9781350418370","title":"Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187311567191,"sku":"9781350418370","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uyghur-women-activists-in-the-diaspora-9781350418370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}