Genocidal processes: social death in Xinjiang

Genocide is a series of long-term processes emerging from “states emergency” to convert targeted groups and secure the nation. This paper builds on Critical Studies literature historically contextualize China’s “fusion” policy, narrative emergency officially explaining extra-legal internment camps inter-generational separation in Xinjiang. Although policymakers traditionally frame “one-nation-one-state thinking” as Western colonialism, critical approaches Chinese politics show party-state frames ethnic identities through colonial binaries backward/modern savagery/civilization. How does party-state’s “historic mission” overcome “humiliation” promote colonialism? The analyses how routine, dehumanizing official narratives identity danger enable genocides, conceptualized planned social death by attrition. It argues that contemporary policy interweaves cultural superiority ethnocentric developmentalism, seeking resolve “ethnic problem” decolonize Xinjiang Turkic Muslims.