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dc.contributor.authorGlen, Samuelen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T02:33:55Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T02:33:55Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.identifier.issn2202-3917en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/340312
dc.description.abstractThis commentary discusses the historical and contemporary conditions, underlying causes and future trajectories of the Uyghur conflict in the XUAR, China, and deals with issues of ethnicity, identity, religion, and nationalism in the context of the challenges within the region. It shows the asymmetrical historical development of the conflict and how its more contemporary conditions in fact exacerbate rather than assuage the Uyghur conflict in the XUAR. This paper, therefore, seeks to show that the underlying cause of the conflict and Uyghur 'separatist' activity in China are not necessarily a simple one-sided story of terrorist activity or religious extremism, but the result of a distinct power dynamic that perpetually favours the Chinese government in practice and policy, thereby encroaching any legitimate claims Uyghur's may have to form an independent and fully autonomous nation-state on their own terms.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherGriffith Universityen_US
dc.publisher.urihttp://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/141524en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue1en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGriffith Asia Quarterlyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume3en_US
dc.titleSources of Conflict in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: History, Power, and Uyghur Identity Flux?en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
gro.description.notepublicGriffith Asia Quarterly was published between 2013 and 2015. An archived version of the original journal website is available via PANDORA - http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/141524en_US
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    The journal of the Griffith Asia Institute. Published from 2013 to 2015, it aimed to publish innovative, interdisciplinary research on key contemporary developments in the politics, economics, societies and cultures of Asia.

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