Development for all? State schemes, security, and marginalization in Kashgar, Xinjiang. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steenberg, Rune; Rippa, Alessandro
• Is Part Of: Critical Asian studies. Volume 51:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 274
• Page End: 295
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Xinjiang -- Uyghurs -- development -- marginalization -- security; Asia -- Periodicals; 950.05
• DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2019.1575758
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1467-2715

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The past decade of development schemes has been experienced very differently by various groups within the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The recent exacerbation of social inequalities, stratification, and tensions in Kashgar is a structural consequence of two phases of government policies: an accelerated formalization of the economy and remodelling of the city-scape as part of modernistic development implemented before 2014, followed by a phase of strong securitization. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork between 2009 and 2017, this paper analyzes the situation, reactions, and strategies of different groups of Uyghur residents of Kashgar to cope with the changing socio-economic and political environment.