Darren Byler

Uyghurs in Turkey protest against the Beijing Winter Olympics. Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo

January 28, 2022

China’s plan for Xinjiang, plus what’s lurking in your household dust? The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript

Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode published on January 27 2022.

Uyghurs and other Muslims pray at a mosque in Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region during a state-organised visit by foreign journalists in April 2021. Wu Hong/EPA

January 27, 2022

China’s plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region’s persecuted Uyghurs – podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation

Plus, what toxic heavy metals are lingering in household dust around the world? Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Des millions de villageois ouïghours ont adopté le smartphone comme un objet courant sans réaliser qu'il se retournerait contre eux. Ici, une femme ouighoure dans un restaurant de Hotan, dans le Xinjiang. Greg Baker / AFP

October 23, 2019

D’abord libératrice, la technologie a peu à peu piégé la communauté ouïghoure

Darren Byler, University of Washington

Mes recherches en Chine et au sein de la communauté ouïghoure m’ont permis d’observer comment l’usage de la technologie, au début libérateur, est peu à peu devenu une contrainte pour cette minorité.

Uighurs wait in line at a face scan checkpoint in Turpan, Xinjiang in northwest China on April 11, 2018. Darren Byler

September 18, 2019

I researched Uighur society in China for 8 years and watched how technology opened new opportunities – then became a trap

Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University

An anthropologist who interviewed Uighurs in China found different ways in which Chinese authorities used checkpoints, social media and smartphones to identify, categorize and control this group.

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China’s plan for Xinjiang, plus what’s lurking in your household dust? The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript

China’s plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region’s persecuted Uyghurs – podcast

D’abord libératrice, la technologie a peu à peu piégé la communauté ouïghoure

I researched Uighur society in China for 8 years and watched how technology opened new opportunities – then became a trap

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