We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Author:   Ilham Tohti
Publisher:   Verso Books
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9781839764042


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
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Author:   Ilham Tohti
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.185kg
ISBN:  

9781839764042


ISBN 10:   183976404
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Ilham Tohti is the world's foremost expert on Uyghurs and Chinese policy in Xinjiang, and we are extremely fortunate to have the first collection of his writings and interviews in English. These texts provide a politically illuminating introduction to the many dimensions of Uyghur oppression. This is an absolute must-read for anyone trying to understand the origins of one of the 21st century's great human catastrophes. - Eli Friedman, Cornell University, author of The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City Ilham Tohti should be read not only as a tragic victim of state violence, but as a primary source for understanding the underlying conditions at the heart of the Xinjiang emergency. With the skill of a diplomat balancing on the knife-edge of a capricious state, We Uyghurs Have No Say calls all people of conscience to stand in opposition to Islamophobia and against an emergent settler colonialism at a frontier of our shared global economy. - Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University, author of Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City Largely culled from sometimes ephemeral web resources, translated elegantly, and with a highly useful introduction, in these pieces one hears a voice at once familiar and strikingly original. Tohti's writings remind us of the moral courage of prison writers like Nelson Mandela, Walid Daqqa, Khalida Jarrar, and Leonard Peltier. Although centered on the case of the Uyghur, Tohti's scope broadens to a critique of ethnonationalism, ethnic cleansing, and the erasure of indigenous peoples worldwide. - David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, author of Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voice Back


Ilham Tohti is the world's foremost expert on Uyghurs and Chinese policy in Xinjiang, and we are extremely fortunate to have the first collection of his writings and interviews in English. These texts provide a politically illuminating introduction to the many dimensions of Uyghur oppression. This is an absolute must-read for anyone trying to understand the origins of one of the 21st century's great human catastrophes. - Eli Friedman, Cornell University, author of The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City Ilham Tohti should be read not only as a tragic victim of state violence, but as a primary source for understanding the underlying conditions at the heart of the Xinjiang emergency. With the skill of a diplomat balancing on the knife-edge of a capricious state, We Uyghurs Have No Say calls all people of conscience to stand in opposition to Islamophobia and against an emergent settler colonialism at a frontier of our shared global economy. - Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University, author of Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City Largely culled from sometimes ephemeral web resources, translated elegantly, and with a highly useful introduction, in these pieces one hears a voice at once familiar and strikingly original. Tohti's writings remind us of the moral courage of prison writers like Nelson Mandela, Walid Daqqa, Khalida Jarrar, and Leonard Peltier. Although centered on the case of the Uyghur, Tohti's scope broadens to a critique of ethnonationalism, ethnic cleansing, and the erasure of indigenous peoples worldwide. - David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, author of Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voice Back As Tohti wrote before his sentencing, the reason his people's arduous history must be known and proliferated is because of the hope it and his life's work evinces. -Kevin Lozano, Vulture Through his writings, Tohti tries to give the Uyghurs a voice. It is a tragic story that speaks volumes about the UK's current retreat from international law. -Helena Kennedy, Guardian An indispensable firsthand description of the Uyghurs' desperate plight. -Jeremy Ray Jewell, Arts Fuse We Uyghurs Have No Say provides a comprehensive analysis of how Uyghurs came to be a subjugated group within China, as well as strategies for remedying the situation through interethnic dialogue and policy reform ... At times, [Tohti's] writing reads more like one friend's sober advice to another, possessing a 'for your own good' quality while still bearing the mark of lived experience. -New York Magazine


As Tohti wrote before his sentencing, the reason his people's arduous history must be known and proliferated is because of the hope it and his life's work evinces. -- Kevin Lozano * Vulture * Through his writings, Tohti tries to give the Uyghurs a voice. It is a tragic story that speaks volumes about the UK's current retreat from international law. -- Helena Kennedy * Guardian * An indispensable firsthand description of the Uyghurs' desperate plight. -- Jeremy Ray Jewell * Arts Fuse * We Uyghurs Have No Say provides a comprehensive analysis of how Uyghurs came to be a subjugated group within China, as well as strategies for remedying the situation through interethnic dialogue and policy reform ... At times, [Tohti's] writing reads more like one friend's sober advice to another, possessing a 'for your own good' quality while still bearing the mark of lived experience. * New York Magazine *


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Ilham Tohti is a Uyghur Economist, Writer, and Professor who is a co-founder of the website Uyghur Online, also known as Uyghurbiz, which aimed to promote understanding between Uyghurs and Han Chinese. In February 2014 Tohti was charged with separatism and held incommunicado under inhumane treatment for months before he could meet his lawyer. On September 23, 2014, he was found guilty of “separatism,” and is currently serving a life sentence. He has been incarcerated incommunicado since 2017, with no access to his family or his lawyers.

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