In this final episode, Remote Xuar Principal Investigators Vanessa Frangville, Rune Steenberg and Björn Alpermann reflect on how remote ethnography is remodelling Uyghur studies, based on their conversation with experts through 8 episodes of the Remote Chay podcast.

This podcast is part of the RX project which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe coordination and support action 101079460— REMOTEXUAR— HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03

Nyrola Elimä, executive director of the Wild Pigeon Collective, has for years been at the forefront of research on the Uyghurs and their homelands. Particularly she takes a closer look at the human rights violations and atrocities the Chinese state has committed in the region in the past decade. Nyrola's work is international. It includes researching forced labour and the complicity of western companies as well as the transnational repression perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party when they try to silence Uyghurs across the globe – including the voice of Nyrola herself.

This podcast is part of the RX project which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe coordination and support action 101079460— REMOTEXUAR— HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03

In this episode, we discuss some challenges to the maintenance of Uyghur cultures and identities in the diaspora in times of crisis. Rebecca Clothey and Dilmurat Mahmut have co-edited a volume published by Routledge in 2024 titled Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis. Our conversation is based on their book and their own research on different diasporic Uyghur communities.

This podcast is part of the RX project which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe coordination and support action 101079460— REMOTEXUAR— HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03