Testimonies and the Uyghur genocide metanarrative: Some reflections from the field
Testimonies and the Uyghur genocide metanarrative: Some reflections from the field This paper seeks to explore the epistemic role of testimonies in the ongoing Uyghur crisis, as well as their…
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Front-line workers, or street-level bureaucrats, who interact directly with clients, have significant discretion…
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens Ethnography, Ahead of Print. What is the role of transnational non-state philanthropic actors in the Kuwaiti humanitarian mission abroad?…
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on the transnational giving practices of Kammas (a…
What does genocide feel like? An autoethnography of visual affect
What does genocide feel like? An autoethnography of visual affect This article reflects on relations between individual and cultural experience to illuminate how anthropologists and political scientists approach Uyghur narratives…
Eliminate all illegal births: Negative eugenics and Uyghur women as objects of contestation
Eliminate all illegal births: Negative eugenics and Uyghur women as objects of contestation In 2021 state statistics demonstrated that for the first time in modern history the Uyghur population itself…
Identity, violence, and the uncomfortable necessity of categorization
Identity, violence, and the uncomfortable necessity of categorization Go to Source
Uyghur suffering, uncertainty, and academic interpretation
Uyghur suffering, uncertainty, and academic interpretation Scholars of life in Xinjiang have faced unprecedented stakes and uncertainty in recent years. Access to the region and its people is curtailed, and…
Tabula rasa: Han settler colonialism and frontier genocide in “re-educated” Xinjiang
Tabula rasa: Han settler colonialism and frontier genocide in “re-educated” Xinjiang In his analysis of the frontier genocides waged against the Aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero…
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations
Addressing the Methodological Challenges that Cloaked Profiles Pose to Digital Observations Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Although digital ethnographic studies concerned with online misinformation have focused on analyzing…
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics Ethnography, Ahead of Print. This article is a reflexive critique from a female Chinese anthropologist who…