David Tobin

@ReasonablyRagin

Lecturer in East Asian Studies @sheffielduni. Author: Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity & Insecurity in Xinjiang bit.ly/3GWU2J1 @CambridgeUP

sheffield.ac.uk/las/people/eas… Joined September 2011

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David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin Oct 1, 2020

My book, ‘Securing China’s Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang’, is now available from @CambridgeUP @cambUP_History. It analyses how China’s nation-building in #Xinjiang shapes insecurity and ethnic boundaries between Han and #Uyghurs. doi.org/10.1017/978110…

David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin Aug 20

This is tomorrow!

Amnesty UK - China & East Asia @amnestyukCEA Aug 14

This INCREDIBLE event is open to all - we hope to see many of you there.
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David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin Aug 14

As part of #Uyghur Solidarity Month, @amnesty International are screening Echoes of Home, a documentary by David Tobin and Mirshad Ghalip. The panel discussion afterwards includes @KabirQurban. I hope you can join us.

David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin Jul 14

"The case of Turkey demonstrates that #China’s repertoire of #transnationalrepression operates in interaction with the host state’s administrative and ideological apparatus...this repressive architecture progressively erodes the diaspora’s security"

David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin Jul 14

I thought George Galloway would be happy about this. He usually commends the CCP's policies of arbitrary detention of 100,000s of people for their opinions in China.

George Galloway Verified account @georgegalloway Jul 14

To the best of my knowledge I have never met a member of the IRGC. Neither expressed “a positive opinion” about them. An English woman named Shabana Mahmood has just made it punishable by 14 years in prison so to do so as a free-born Scotsman I will have to reconsider that. So far as I’m aware - as a UK legislator across five decades - this is the first time I have been explicitly told that I can go to prison literally for my opinion. For those of you cheering, remember, it will be your opinion next.
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