Bahrain s uprising resistance and repression in the Gulf First Published Edition by Ala’a Shehabi , Marc Owen Jones ISBN 1783604336 978-1783604333

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ISBN 10: 1783604336 

ISBN 13: 978-1783604333

Author: Ala’a Shehabi , Marc Owen Jones

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.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Voices of the condemned
Part II: Configuring dissent – charting movements,space, and self-representation in Bahrain
Part III: Suppressing dissent in an acceptable manner – modes of repression, colonial legacies, and institutional violence
Future directions: prospects of democratisation and social justice
This book
Part One: Voices of the condemned
Chapter 1: A trial of thoughts and ideas
A trial against ideas
The causes of the political crisis
An ethical stance against violence
A charge of violence to suppress and exclude the opposition
Malicious charges
First: the charge of overthrowing the regime by force
Second: the charge of inciting hatred and contempt of the regime
Third: the charge of broadcasting and disseminating fabricated news and false rumours
Fourth: the charge of insulting the army
Chapter 2: God after ten o’clock
The State Security Building: the first arrest of the seagull
The seagull’s plea before the sea
Cages for seagulls that might be born
Chapter 3: A room with a view: An eyewitness to the Pearl Uprising
Part one: the ‘cleansing’ of the Pearl Roundabout
Part two: unarmed and shot in the back – there turn to the Pearl Roundabout
Part three: the classroom, the protests, and a foreign army
Part four: back to Bahrain and goodbye
Part Two: Configuring dissent: Charting movements, space, and self-representation in Bahrain
Chapter 4: Shifting contours of activism and possibilities for justice in Bahrain
Bahrain’s ‘advocacy revolution’
Beyond borders: internationalising the human rights struggle
A history of a rights-based social movement
False hopes and the mirage of liberal democracy
From tactics to enshrining secular rights principles: the attraction of human rights and the proliferation of NGOs
A brief topography of opposition actors
Upgrading authoritarianism
Is human rights advocacy enough? Where do we go from here?
New realms, new possibilities, new times
Chapter 5: The many afterlives of Lulu: The story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout
The birth of Lulu
Roundabouts and amnesia
Lulu rising
The splintered image
Chapter 6: Tn Tn Ttn and torture in Bahrain: Puncturing the spectacle of the ‘Arab Spring’
Tn Tn Ttn: a short film
The ‘visual rush’ and the problematic ‘spectacle’ of the Arab uprisings
Controlling the ‘field of representability’ of the national self-image
Puncturing the ‘field of representability’ with state violence
Puncturing the ‘field of representability’ with creative resistance
Part Three: Suppressing dissent in an acceptable manner: Modes of repression, colonial legacies,and institutional violence
Chapter 7: On the side of decency and democracy: The history of British–Bahraini relations and transnational contestation
Bahrain’s long ‘friendship’ with Britain
Outside Bahrain but inside the people: Bahrain’s opposition abroad
Bahraini activism in the UK
‘A right way to frame things’: contesting British–Bahraini relations
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Rotten apples or rotten orchards: Police deviance, brutality, and unaccountability in Bahrain
The absence of consent: the emergence of colonial, tribal, and ethnic policing in Bahrain
The Al Khalifa and the post-independence police state
The institutionalisation of deviance and sectarian policing
The quality of recruits: from villains to mercenaries
Mercenaries, ancillaries, and baltajiyya
Brutal redux: policing the Bahrain Uprising of 2011
State unaccountability and impunity
The role of society
Asymmetric policing and systemic police deviance
Chapter 9: Social media, surveillance, and cyberpolitics in the Bahrain Uprising
The growth of web activism and control in Bahrain
Surveillance and sousveillance
Social media, surveillance, and counter revolutionary vigilante sousveillance
The anti-social movement surveillance state
Concluding remarks

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