Darren Byler is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. An anthropologist and author, his research has focused on the dispossession of stateless populations — particularly Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang — through contemporary capitalism, digital infrastructure and colonialism. He is the author of In The Camps: China’s High Tech Penal Colony (October 2021) and Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (2022).
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