Marc Owen Jones

Political Repression in Bahrain

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Produktbeschreibung

From torture to fake news, this book lays out how the Bahrain regime has used political repression and violence to fight social movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9781108458009
• ISBN-10: 1108458009
• Artikelnr.: 58851591

Autorenporträt

Marc Owen Jones is Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamid bin Khalifa University where his research focuses on issues of social justice and the Gulf. He is the co-editor of Gulfization of the Arab World (2018) and Bahrain's Uprising: Resistance and Repression in the Gulf (2015). In addition to his academic work, he contributes to the Washington Post, New Statesman, CNN, the Independent, PEN International, and appears frequently on the BBC, Channel 4 News, and Al Jazeera.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Political Repression in Bahrain in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
1. Defining Political Repression
2. The Repression Playbook
3. Political Statecraft: Between Democratisation, Discord and Division
4. Torture, Arrests, and other Personal Integrity Violations
5. Repressive Law and Legal Repression
6. Information Controls: From Surveillance to Social Media and Fake News
Conclusion: Between Retrograde Repression and Repression 3.0.