Unruly speech

• Verfasst von: Witteborn, Saskia [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Unruly speech
• Titelzusatz: displacement and the politics of transgression
• Verf.angabe: Saskia Witteborn
• Verlagsort: Stanford
• Verlag: Stanford University Pres
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xii, 233 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Globalization in everyday life
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3339-1
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3430-5
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Witteborn, Saskia, 1971-: Unruly speech. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023] |(DLC)2022012263
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Witteborn, Saskia, 1971 - : Unruly Speech. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1808434498

Abstract

Unruly speech : transgression and the limit -- Xinjiang : unity in inequality -- East Turkistan : belonging and human rights -- Testimonio -- Conclusions.

Abstract

"Based on a long-term ethnography in China, the United States and Germany, "Unruly Speech" explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement as a communicative and spatial phenomenon and focuses on how naming practices and witness accounts can operate as tools of activism, resistance, and communication. Moreover, she analyzes social media, literatures on surveillance and digitized witness accounts to examine the way Uyghurs, their supporters and the Chinese state each use technology to their own ends: to set limits and to cross over those limits, respectively. The book provides a granular view of disruptive communication: its sociopolitical moorings and socio-technical control. Findings in this book inform studies of migration and displacement, language and social interaction, advocacy and digital surveillance, and a transnational China"--