Darren Byler on Terror Capitalism and Digital Control in Xinjiang

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). Darren Byler. Illustration

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