Policing and prisons in the Middle East : formations of coercion / edited by Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khalili, Laleh.

Schwedler, Jillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Middle East.

Prisons.

Police--Middle East.

Police.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xiv, 300 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]

Contents:

Policing the desert : coercion, consent and the colonial order in Syria / Dan Neep

Israeli biopolitics, Palestinian policing : order and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territories / Nigel Parsons

Tangled webs of coercion : parastatal production of violence in Abu Ghraib / Laleh Khalili

Barring the Algerian subject : carcerality and resistance under market-statism / Sayres S. Rudy

Post-colonial policing and the "woman" question : a history of the women's police directorate in Bahrain / Staci Strobl

The police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period and the re-construction of the social formation / Biriz Berksoy

Confining political dissent in Egypt before 1952 / Anthony Gorman

Observing the everyday : policing and the conditions of possibility in Gaza (1948-1967) / Ilana Feldman

Riot police and policing protest in Turkey / Ayşen Uysal

Incarcerated women, honorable women / Roberta Micallef

The victim's tale in Syria : imprisonment, individualism, and liberalism / Sune Haugbolle

Spectacles of death : dignity, dissent, and sacrifice in Turkey's prisons / Banu Bargu

Refusing mercy : challenging the state's monopoly on violence in Iran / Arzoo Osanloo

Locating dissent : space, law, and protest in Jordan / Jillian Schwedler and Sam Fayyaz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231701761

0231701764

OCLC:

500818340