Digital Enclosure and Colonial Technology Travel: Safe Cities from Xinjiang to Kuala Lumpur
In his award-winning book, Terror Capitalism, anthropologist Darren Byler considers how the ubiquity of pass-book systems, webs of biometric surveillance, urban banishment and mass internment camps have reshaped human experience among native Uyghurs and Han settler-colonizers in Northwest China. His current research follows up on the argument of his first book, In the Camps, to consider how contemporary capitalism and colonialism travel through digital infrastructural systems from China to Malaysia and affect Rohingya and other stateless populations in Kuala Lumpur. Drawing on ethnographic fie...