Epidemiologization of Politics: Comparing the Biogovernance of the Mass Detention-Surveillance Program in Xinjiang and Chinese Response to SARS and COVID-19

• In Event: Governing the Chinese Periphery: Hong Kong and Minority Areas

Brief Overview

The paper reveals the epidemiological logic of the mass detention-surveillance program in Xinjiang against “an ideological virus“ through a comparison of the program with the Chinese regime’s response to recent epidemics.

Author

• Seyfullah Ozkurt, University of California-Irvine