Political Repression in Bahrain

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This rich 100-year modern history of Bahrain uses multiple sources, from freedom of information requests, interviews, and social media data to show how and why the Bahrain regime has used different techniques of political repression to maintain power since the 1920s. With new insights, this book challenges existing knowledge on Bahrain.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Jones, Marc Owen Jones, Jones Marc Owen, MARC JONES
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108471435
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47143-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Middle East, Bahrain, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Middle Eastern history, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms