Darren Byler

Darren Byler is an American anthropologist and author. He is assistant professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University.[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 af the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University to build the Xinjiang Documentation Project, a project that documents the ongoing Uyghur genocide.[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]

Books
  • Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press, 2021)[6]
  • In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia University Global Reports, 2021)[7]
  • Xinjiang Year Zero with Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere (ANU Press, 2022)[8]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Goldkorn, Jeremy (16 December 2021). "What is happening in Xinjiang as 2021 draws to a close?". SupChina. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  3. "Darren Byler - School for International Studies - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Forth, Aidan (November 8, 2021). "Settler Colonialism Meets the War on Terror: The Enclosure of China's Uyghurs". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  7. "Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs". The Economist. October 28, 2021.
  8. Byler, Darren; Franceschini, Ivan; Loubere, Nicholas, eds. (2022). Xinjiang Year Zero. ANU Press. doi:10.22459/XYZ.2021. ISBN 9781760464943. {{cite book}}: |first1= missing |last1= (help)
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