Making the “Terrorist-Worker”: Uyghur Forced Labor and Colonial Racial Capitalism in Northwest China, with Darren Byler

Thursday, May 15, 4:00 P.M.

SSMS 2135

Presented by East Asia Center

Dr. Darren Byler, an anthropologist in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, will examine how Muslim farmers in Northwest China are transformed into unfree laborers under the label of “terrorist,” situating this within the broader rise of techno-political systems of racialized capitalism and expanding state control.