“Keep withstanding”: Territory in the body, home and market in Xinjiang, China

Geographic literature has explored how territorialization occurs by multiple actors in material and symbolic spaces, especially the home body. Building on important research feminist geography concerning body as territory, questions remain: How do Uyghurs China respond to state territory their everyday lives? does fear, pleasure, mistrust constitute social relations of territory? people experience navigate dispossession I use long-term ethnographic fieldwork study these questions. is a strong, authoritarian with monopoly power seemingly unlimited surveillance policing capabilities. survival strategies that constituted node overlapping networks Xinjiang. My main argument despite strong government presence, embodied Indigenous practices enabled survivance for Uyghur people. People escaped stress turning modes constituting territory.