Darren Byler
Darren Byler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of the forthcoming book
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2021). His current research focuses on surveillance infrastructure and state power in China and Southeast Asia.
Byler received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in 2018. He has published research articles in
Contemporary Islam,
Central Asian Survey, and the
Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, and has contributed essays to volumes on ethnography of Islam in China, transnational Chinese cinema, and travel and representation. He also writes and curates the digital humanities art and politics repository The Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia.