David Tobin
Title of Thesis
Nation-Building and Ethnic Boundaries in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Summary
It explores the Chinese party-state’s attempts to deepen integration of Xinjiang and Turkic-speaking Uyghurs into China and the popular responses to this project. This examines the interface between official state discourses on nation and ethnicity in Xinjiang on the one hand and social practices and popular self-understandings on the other.
Supervisors
Professor William A. Callahan and Dr Elena Barabantseva
Planned submission date
September 2012
Research interests
identity, ethnicity, nationalism, social theory, Xinjiang, Chinese Studies
Publications
‘Competing Communities: Ethnic Unity and Ethnic Violence on China’s North-West Frontier’, Inner Asia, forthcoming in 2011.
‘Between Minkaohan and Minkaomin: Discourses on ‘Assimilation’ Amongst Urban, Bilingual Uyghurs’, in Smith, Joanne and Zang, Xiaowei (eds) Uyghur Youth Identities in Xinjiang, Routledge, forthcoming in 2012.
Conference papers
‘Between Minkaohan and Minkaomin: Discourses on ‘Assimilation’ Amongst Urban, Bilingual Uyghurs’, Uyghur Youth Identities in Xinjiang Publication Workshop
University of Sheffield, White Rose East Asia Centre, July, 2011.
‘Competing Communities: Ethnic Unity and Ethnic Violence on China’s North-West Frontier’, British International Studies Association Conference, April 2011 and “Representing China: from the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou”, University of Manchester, Centre for Chinese Studies, May, 2011.
‘Incorporating the Internal Other: Kouhao and the Production of Nationhood’, China Postgraduate Network Conference, University of Manchester, May 2009 and Central Asian Visions of the Other, Leeds University, Humanities Research Institute, June 2009.
Teaching experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant on POLI20511 (The Politics of Globalisation and Development)
Email address
david.tobin@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk