Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350418370)

Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of narrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political engagement. Born 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.

The 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.

Through 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.

Author: Susan J. Palmer, Dilmurat Mahmut
ISBN-10: 1350418374
ISBN-13: 9781350418370
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d