{"id":280,"date":"2021-10-24T05:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/?p=280"},"modified":"2021-10-24T05:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:33:34","slug":"occasional-shorts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/occasional-shorts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Occasional shorts – #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

@ASPI_org<\/a>\u00a0has produced a new report called \u201cThe architecture of repression<\/em>\u201d by Xu\u00a0@xu_xiuzhong<\/a>, Leibold\u00a0@jleibold<\/a>\u00a0and Daria Impiombato. I will be analysing this document in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Also checkout my previous shorts.\u00a0Occasional shorts \u2013 #1<\/a> and\u00a0Occasional shorts \u2013 #2<\/a> where I deconstruct Michael Clarke’s contributions to the repression narrative and his indulgence in Replacement Theory.<\/p>\n

Reference 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

title = The case of the missing indigene: debate over a second-generation ethnic policy<\/p>\n

context = indigenous groups1<\/sup><\/p>\n

note =\u00a0 (long) The Chinese party-state officially recognises 56 minzu groups in China: a single Han majority and 55 numerically much smaller groups that currently make up nearly 9% of China’s population. The term minzu is deeply polysemic and notoriously difficult to translate. Depending on the context of its use, the term can connote concepts similar to nation, race, people and ethnicity in English. Party officials initially used the English term ‘nationality\u2019 to render the term into English. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the party gradually pivoted away from ‘nationality’, preferring the term \u2018ethnic minorities\u2019 for the non-Han groups and reserving the term \u2018nation\u2019 for the collective identity and name of the Chinese nation-race\u2019. See James Leibold, The minzu net: China\u2019s fragmented national form<\/em>,\u2019 Nations and Nationalism, 2016, 22(3):425-428.<\/p>\n

While party officials reject any assertion of indigeneity in China, Harvard historian Mark Elliott argues that China\u2019s non-Han peoples are better thought of as indigenous communities rather than as ‘ethnic minorities’, which is a term widely used to refer to migrant populations in places such Canada or Australia, as these groups:<\/p>\n

continue to live on lands to which they have reasonably strong ancestral claims; in their encounter with the majority other, all of them assume the status of natives vis-a-vis the representatives of a central (often formerly colonial or quasi-colonial) government from the outside; and all of them find themselves in positions of relative weakness as a result of an asymmetrical power structure, often the consequence of technological inferiority.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mark Elliott, The case of the missing indigene: debate over a second-generation ethnic policy<\/em>\u2019, The China Journal, 2015, 73:207.<\/p>\n

Throughout this report and our website, we\u2019ve used the terms indigenous\u2019, ethnic minority\u2019 and nationality\u2019 interchangeably to gloss the term minzu, depending on the context. When we refer to the Uyghurs generically, we\u2019re also referring to other Turkic communities in Xinjiang: the Kazakhs, Tajiks, Kyrgyzs and Uzbeks who have also been targeted in China\u2019s crackdown in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

comment = A technical argument over the definition of ‘indigene’ is mixed with subjective judgments such as “relative weakness as a result of an asymmetrical power structure”. The footnote does not clarify, stating:<\/p>\n

“When we refer to the Uyghurs generically, we’re also referring to other Turkic communities in Xinjiang: the Kazakhs, Tajiks, Kyrgyzs and Uzbeks who have also been targeted in China’s crackdown in Xinjiang.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This means the authors are free to frame inter-ethnic relations as they please, without qualification. This leads to a premise for their ‘repression’ narrative that uses constructs such as ‘Han’ as if they were real and essential characteristics of people, not convenient labels. The extension of this premise is the concept of ‘settler colonialism’ by ‘Han’ – a dangerous concept that sails very close to the racist concept of Replacement Theory, where the ‘other’ is alleged to be attempting an ‘invasion’. Incidentally, this is the rationale that Tarrant used in his manifesto as ‘justification’ for the execution of 52 Muslims in NZ.<\/p>\n

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@ASPI_org\u00a0has produced a new report called \u201cThe architecture of repression\u201d by Xu\u00a0@xu_xiuzhong, Leibold\u00a0@jleibold\u00a0and Daria Impiombato. I will be analysing this document in the next few weeks. Also checkout my previous shorts.\u00a0Occasional shorts \u2013 #1 and\u00a0Occasional shorts \u2013 #2 where I deconstruct Michael Clarke’s contributions to the repression narrative and his indulgence in Replacement Theory. Reference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integrity","category-deradicalisation","category-replacement-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tissueoflies.com\/hom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}