Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino is a doctoral researcher and associate tutor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick (England), where he investigates the social construction of ‘terrorism’ in Xinjiang by the Chinese state. His most recent publication is ‘Old ‘counter-revolution’, new ‘terrorism’: historicizing the framing of violence in Xinjiang by the Chinese state’ (Central Asian Survey, 2018).
China’s Protracted Securitization of Xinjiang: Origins of a Surveillance State
Why we need to shift our understanding of recent Chinese practices in Xinjiang Xinjiang has recently been in the international spotlight due to the advent of what observers in the…