{"product_id":"uyghur-women-activists-in-the-susan-j-palmer-9781350418370","title":"Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003enarrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eengagement. \u003c\/b\u003eBorn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan J. Palmer, Dilmurat Mahmut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350418374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350418370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Susan J. Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47087585919231,"sku":"9781350418370","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a68e1dab-72a0-4471-b50d-1ff9c720dc86.jpg?v=1753850289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uyghur-women-activists-in-the-susan-j-palmer-9781350418370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}