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Darren Byler is an Associate Professor in the School of International Studies at Simon Fraser University, where he specializes in socio-cultural anthropology. His research focuses on the effects of surveillance on stateless populations and the role of infrastructural state power in contemporary capitalism and colonialism, particularly in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Byler's current projects include a narrative-driven book titled 'Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony' and an academic monograph titled 'Thinking Violence: Narratives of Thought Reform & Infrastructural State Power in Northwest China'. He also works on archival projects surrounding policing and education in Northwest China and has contributed to public discourse on the crisis facing Uyghurs. Byler has collaborated with faculty and researchers at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University to develop the Xinjiang Documentation Project, which archives personal testimonies and internal police documents related to the ongoing detentions of Turkic Muslims in China. His publications include books, articles, and chapters that interrogate various dimensions of contemporary surveillance, state power, and human rights in China.
Simon Fraser University • Vancouver
Teaching and research in the School of International Studies.
Department of Philosophy