“Darren Byler’s <i>Terror Capitalism</i> provides critical insights into one of the most important and contested topics in international human rights. Drawing on an extensive archive of firsthand research, Byler gives a rich and detailed look at the persecution and cultural genocide of the Uyghur. An indispensable resource for studies in human rights, surveillance, China, Muslims, Islamophobia, capitalism, and more.” - David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University “Spelling out the full spectrum of what dispossession means for Uyghurs, Darren Byler offers a fine balance between political passion and scholarship as well as an important self-reflexivity about the role of an ethnographer in a context full of violence and terror. There is so little on what Uyghurs are going through, and it is vital that this information be made public. <i>Terror Capitalism</i> is one of the few works that bring such complex understanding to the situation in Xinjiang.” - Lisa Rofel, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz "Remarkable ... compelling ... offers an important contribution for specialists and graduate students." - Aidan Forth (Los Angeles Review of Books) "There are many reasons to recommend <i>Terror Capitalism</i>, and not least for the way it gives voice to so many different Uyghurs, a people often reduced either to an abstract entity or a lone voice of victimhood." - Nick Holdstock (Times Literary Supplement) "Byler’s pioneering work vividly conveys the suffering that individuals experience under the regime’s policies in Xinjiang" - Roger Garside (Literary Review of Canada) "Some of the stories Byler’s book recalls read like a scene straight out of Kafka’s <i>The Trial</i>. . . . The author’s attention to detail and commitment to thorough research is excellent." - JP O'Malley (Globe and Mail) "Byler has written the definitive ethnography of the Uyghurs in the 2010s, a decade of increasing desperation." - Chris Hann (Eurasian Geography and Economics) "Darren Byler’s ethnography is an invaluable contribution, as he provides a rare micro, ground-level view of events and Uyghur social life in the past decade. His storytelling brilliantly plugs the reader into his characters’ internal life and offers a remarkable insight into the Uyghur experience. He is also successful in his attempt to provide a refined, balanced and thorough scholarly analysis of the current crisis-with carefully chosen words and ethnographic vignettes. Byler’s book is therefore a powerful tribute to his informants, Han or Uyghur, and to all those who suffer from Beijing’s oppressive policies in the region." - Vanessa Frangville (China Quarterly) “What Byler has so forensically and movingly described in <i>Terror Capitalism</i> is a techno-capitalist model of settler colonialism. If the hallmarks of settler colonialism are the expropriation of the lands/property of indigenous Others and their physical removal and replacement by a new settler society, then contemporary Xinjiang is perhaps distressingly at the leading edge of settler colonialism in the twenty first century.” - Michael Clarke (Ethnic and Racial Studies) “Byler has in recent years emerged as one the most insightful and prolific chroniclers of the ongoing dispossession of the Uyghur community. . . . His richly theorized study provides readers access to a way of life largely invisible in Chinese state sources and infrequently represented in Uyghur official culture.” - Joshua L. Freeman (Journal of Asian Studies) “While much of the heretofore published academic discussion of [Uyghur dispossession] revolves around its systemic elements, Byler calls on us to examine its devastating impact on a granular, personal level. Thus, the strength both of Byler’s theoretical and methodological frameworks is made clear: his dissection of the dehumanization caused by terror capitalism, enacted through detailed ethnography, implores readers to remember that resistance begins by reasserting the humanity of the oppressed.” - David R. Stroup (PoLAR) "<i>Terror Capitalism</i> offers vivid personal tales as well as a fine-grained analysis of China’s intensified oppression in the region. . . . As the earlier chapters of <i>Terror Capitalism</i> masterfully elucidate, racial subjugation and colonization are not exclusive to China but rather are embedded in a global system; the West is complicit in and has benefited from Uyghur dispossession." - Yangyang Cheng (The Nation) "Byler's authority is grounded in years of on-site work, and he reveals a deep knowledge of his subjects. This highly accessible narrative will interest many readers. . . .  Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." (Choice)