Post Tagged with: "Rachel Harris"
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Displacement and Remembrance
New Article Published:Displacement and Remembrance: mediated listening among exile Uyghur Sufis Rachel Harris Part of the special issue “Liturgies amplifiées”Archives de sciences sociales des religions, vol. 214 | avril-juin 2026, p107-130.https://doi.org/10.4000/16tj2 Abstract: This article engages with the notion of «amplified liturgies» through a focus on migrant practices of mediated listening among displaced Uyghur Naqshbandi Sufi followers. Cut off from family and community in the homeland, they maintain connections with other […]
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Keeping Uyghur Culture Alive in Exile
On February 24, 2024, the Orient-Institute, Istanbul hosted an ‘invitation-only’ event, “Keeping Uyghur Culture Alive in Exile.” The event responded to the repression, surveillance, mass detention and cultural destruction experienced by Uyghurs in recent years. The event focused on the ways in which academics, educators and artists have responded to fears of the erasure of Uyghur culture by engaging with exile communities who are striving to keep their culture alive. Rachel Harris, Professor […]
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Aesthetic Orientations, Cultural Re-Engineering, and Spiritual Joy
Encounters with Uyghur Sufis in Exile A talk given by Rachel Harris at the Research Seminar of the School of Modern Languages (students’ choice), Newcastle University, March 6, 2024. Abstract: This talk reflects on China’s ongoing campaigns in the Uyghur region and related debates on cultural erasure through the lens of recent ethnographic encounters with Uyghur Sufis in exile in Istanbul and Dubai. They are inheritors of an Islamic cultural and spiritual tradition which […]