TY - BOOK ID - 77940012 TI - The art of symbolic resistance : Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations in contemporary Xinjiang PY - 2013 SN - 9004256784 9789004256781 9789004254916 9004254919 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Uighur (Turkic people) KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Civil resistance KW - Non-resistance to government KW - Resistance to government KW - Political science KW - Political violence KW - Insurgency KW - Nonviolence KW - Revolutions KW - Taranchi (Turkic people) KW - Uighurs KW - Uigur (Turkic people) KW - Uigurs KW - Uyghur (Turkic people) KW - Uyghurs KW - Uygur (Turkic people) KW - Weiwu'er (Turkic people) KW - Ethnology KW - Turkic peoples KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Government relations. KW - Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) KW - 新疆维吾尔自治区 (China) KW - Xinjiang Weiwu'er Zizhiqu (China) KW - Hsin-chiang Wei-wu-erh tzu chih chʻü (China) KW - Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) KW - Autonomes Gebiet Xinjiang der Uiguren (China) KW - Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region (China) KW - XUAR (China) KW - East Turkestan (China) KW - Chinese Turkestan (China) KW - Turkistān al-Sharqīyah (China) KW - Sinčhīang (China : Autonomous region) KW - Khēt Kānpokkhrō̜ngtonʻēng Sinčhīang ʻUikū (China) KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡nskiĭ uĭgurskiĭ avtonomnyĭ raĭon (China) KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡n-uĭgurskiĭ avtonomnyĭ raĭon (China) KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡n-uĭgurskiĭ avtonomnyĭ raĭon KNP (China) KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡n (China) KW - Xin Jiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) KW - Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region (China) KW - Shinkyō Uiguru Jichiku (China) KW - Hsin-chiang (China : Autonomous region) KW - Xinjiang (China : Autonomous region) KW - Shyn︠g︡zhan︠g︡ (China : Autonomous region) KW - Uyghur Autonomous Region (China) KW - Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region (China) KW - Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang (China) KW - Xinjiang weiwu'er zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) KW - Sinjiyang (China : Autonomous region) KW - SUAR (China) KW - SUAR KNP (China) KW - Doğu Türkistan (China) KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡n-Uĭgurii︠a︡ (China) KW - Vostochnyĭ Turkestan (China) KW - Dzhungarii︠a︡ (China) KW - Kashgarii︠a︡ (China) KW - 東突厥斯坦 (China) KW - Dong Tujuesitan (China) KW - East Turkistan (China) KW - Eastern Turkistan (China) KW - Uyghurstan (China) KW - Uyghuristan (China) KW - Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (China) KW - Uĭgurii︠a︡ KW - Уйгурия KW - Kashkarii︠a︡ KW - Кашгария KW - I︠a︡rkendskoe gosudarstvo Saidii︠a︡ KW - Яркендское государство Саидия KW - I︠a︡rkend state of Saidi︠a︡ KW - Malai︠a︡ Bukharii︠a︡ KW - Малая Бухария KW - Small Bukharii︠a︡, KW - Altyshar KW - Алтышар KW - Ĭettishar KW - Йеттишар KW - Dzhungarii︠a︡ KW - Джунгария KW - Vostochnyĭ Turkestan KW - Восточный Туркестан KW - Eastern Turkestan KW - Vostochno-Turkestanskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Восточно-Туркестанская Республика KW - Eastern-Turkestan Republic KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡n-Uĭgur Avtonomnyĭ Raiʹon (China) KW - Синьцзян-Уйгур Автономный Район (China) KW - Sinʹt︠s︡zi︠a︡n-Uĭgur Autonomous Region KW - Xinjiang Sheng (China) KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Political resistance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77940012 AB - Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic Resistance considers Uyghur identities from a local perspective, based on interviews conducted with group members over nearly twenty years. Smith Finley rejects assertions that the Uyghur ethnic group is a ‘creation of the Chinese state’, suggesting that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and a more recently evolved sense of common enmity towards the Han. This book advances the discipline in three senses: from a focus on sporadic violent opposition to one on everyday symbolic resistance; from state to ‘local’ representations; and from a conceptualisation of Uyghurs as ‘victim’ to one of ‘creative agent’. ER -