Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass incarceration. Despite their remote location, these village women are mobile…
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Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass incarceration. Despite their remote location, these village women are mobile and connected, and their religious soundscapes flow out across transnational networks. In Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam, author Rachel Harris examines the religious practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small village now engulfed in this chaos.
Sound, embodiment, and territoriality illuminate both the patterns of religious change among Uyghurs and the policies of cultural erasure used by the Chinese state to reassert its control over the land the Uyghurs occupy. Harris explores the spiritual and political geographies they inhabit, moving outward from the village to trace connections with Mecca, Istanbul, Bishkek, and Beijing. By drawing on contemporary approaches to the circulation of popular music,