Bahrain's Uprising

Resistance and Repression in the Gulf

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Amid the extensive coverage of the Arab uprisings, the Gulf state of Bahrain has been almost forgotten. Fusing historical and contemporary analysis, Bahrain’s Uprising seeks to fill this gap, examining the ongoing protests and state repression that continues today.Drawing on powerful testimonies, interviews, and conversations from those involved, this broad collection of writings by scholars and activists provides a rarely heard voice of the lived experience of Bahrainis, describing the way in which a sophisticated society, defined by a historical struggle, continues to hamper the efforts of the ruling elite to rebrand itself as a liberal monarchy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-09-15
Mått:143 x 222 x undefined mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781783604340

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Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Ala?a Shehabi is a Bahraini writer and researcher. She is a co-founder of Bahrain Watch, an NGO that advocates for accountability and social justice in Bahrain. She previously worked as a policy analyst at RAND Corporation and as a lecturer at the Bahraini Institute for Banking and Finance during the 2011 uprising. Various parts of the book were written during a visiting position at Lund University and a fellowship at the Arab Council for Social Sciences.Marc Owen Jones is a writer researching political repression in Bahrain at Durham University. In addition to teaching Middle East politics, Marc is a member of the advocacy NGO Bahrain Watch and writes a blog on Bahrain. In 2011, he helped to expose fake journalist Liliane Khalil and appeared on Al Jazeera and France 24 to discuss how PR companies are using such figures to spread government propaganda.

Recensioner i media

What binds the essays is, first of all, that they are remarkably well crafted and share a sense of immediacy... (At least one of the contributors is currently imprisoned.) The essays also share an overarching sense of humanity, in that the book focuses on the experience of people, not members of specific religious or national groups.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: On the Prelude to the 14 February Uprising - Abdulhadi KhalafIntroduction: Bahrain's Uprising, the Struggle for Democracy in the Gulf - Ala'a Shehabi and Marc Owen JonesPart I: Voices of the Condemned1. A Trial of Thoughts and Ideas - Ibrahim Sharif2. God After Ten O'Clock - 'Ali Al Jallawi3. A Room with a Wiew: An Eyewitness to the Pearl Uprising - Tony MitchellPart II: Configuring Dissent: Charting Movements, Space, and Self-Representation in Bahrain4. Shifting Contours of Activism and Possibilities for Justice in Bahrain - Luke G.G. Bhatia and Ala'a Shehabi5. The Many Afterlives of Lulu: The Story of Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout - Amal Khalaf6. Tn Tn Ttn and Torture in Bahrain: Puncturing the Spectacle of the 'Arab Spring' - John HornePart III: Suppressing Dissent in an Acceptable Manner: Modes of Repression, Foreign Involvement and Institutional Violence7. On the Side of Decency and Democracy: The History of British–Bahraini Relations and Transnational Contestation - Zoe Holman8. Rotten Apples or Rotten Orchards: Police Deviance, Brutality, and Unaccountability in Bahrain - Marc Owen Jones9. Social Media, Surveillance, and Cyberpolitics in the Bahrain uprising - Marc Owen Jones