Political Repression in Bahrain
About this book
Exploring Bahrain's modern history through the lens of repression, this concise and accessible account work spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, looking at all forms of political repression from legal, statecraft, police brutality and informational controls. Considering several episodes of contention in Bahrain, from tribal resistance to the British reforms of the 1920s, the rise of the Higher Executive Committee in the 1950s, the leftist agitation of the 1970s, the 1990s Intifada and the 2011 Uprising, Marc Owen Jones offers never before seen insights into the British role in Bahrain, as well as the activities of the Al Khalifa Ruling Family. From the plundering of Bahrain's resources, to new information about the torture and murder of Bahrain civilians, this study reveals new facts about Bahrain's troubled political history. Using freedom of information requests, historical documents, interviews, and data from social media, this is a rich and original interdisciplinary history of Bahrain over one hundred years.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Political Repression in Bahrain in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
- 1 Defining Political Repression
- 2 The Repression Playbook
- 3 Political Statecraft: Between Democratization, 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
- Bibliography
- Index