| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, April 1, 2022 | 3:30PM - 5:00PM | Online Event, |
This talk considers the origins and potentials of Chinese-built security projects around the world in places such as Cambodia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Ecuador. By considering the securitization of Xinjiang as a limit case for global China security projects and the way Chinese military operations in North Africa figure in discourses, theorization and technologies used in Xinjiang, the talk will examine the history and capacities of Chinese-built security infrastructure. Drawing these examples, it will then consider some of the emergent patterns and trends that appear through the privatization and export of Chinese-built surveillance systems and dataveillance tools. Ultimately, the talk problematizes assumptions concerning the actualization of the transfer of authoritarian politics through infrastructure.
Anthropologist Darren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author ofTerror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia Global Reports 2021). His current research interests are focused on infrastructure development and global China.
The event is a part of the BRIGP project and is open only to UofT faculty and students .
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