Darren Byler is an American anthropologist and author. He is assistant professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.[1] Byler specializes in the Uyghurs in China and has written about the ongoing oppression of the ethnic group in China, such as through the Xinjiang internment camps.[2]
Byler has a BA in History & Visual Journalism from Kent State University, an MA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University, and a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington.[3] Prior to joining Simon Fraser University, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado.[4]
Byler has worked as an advisor with faculty members and researchers at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University to build the Xinjiang Documentation Project, a project that documents the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.[3][5] His research has been supported by Columbia University's Global Reports series and a Luce Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Fellowship.[3]
Byler has been frequently attacked by Chinese state media, who have accused him of being an agent of the United States government, which Byler has denied. The Global Times, a newspaper run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has accused Byler of being an "anti-China figure" who makes "fabricated" allegations about "genocide and crimes against humanity" in Xinjiang.[6]
Books
editExternal links
edit- Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia, a blog by Byler where he has published many of his analyses of Central Asian, Chinese, and Uyghur life and politics
- The China Project, where Byler has frequently contributed
References
edit- ^ Ayed, Nahlah (17 February 2022). "China's high-tech repression of Uyghurs is more sinister — and lucrative — than it seems, anthropologist says". CBC Radio One. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ Goldkorn, Jeremy (16 December 2021). "What is happening in Xinjiang as 2021 draws to a close?". SupChina. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ a b c "Darren Byler - School for International Studies - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca.
- ^ Byler, Darren; Sanchez Boe, Caroline (24 July 2020). "Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ Byler, Darren (23 October 2021). "China's internment camps in Xinjiang are a horror. Survivors and participants alike must reconcile with the truth". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ^ Todd, Douglas (2022-08-11). "Douglas Todd: SFU prof targeted by China for groundbreaking Uyghur research". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
- ^ Forth, Aidan (November 8, 2021). "Settler Colonialism Meets the War on Terror: The Enclosure of China's Uyghurs". Los Angeles Review of Books.
- ^ "Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs". The Economist. October 28, 2021.
- ^ Byler, Darren; Franceschini, Ivan; Loubere, Nicholas, eds. (2022). Xinjiang Year Zero. ANU Press. doi:10.22459/XYZ.2021. ISBN 9781760464943.