Policing and prisons in the Middle East
Subtitle: formations of coercion
By: edited by Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231701761
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Policing the desert : coercion, consent and the colonial order in Syria / Dan Neep; title: Israeli biopolitics, Palestinian policing : order and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territories / Nigel Parsons; title: Tangled webs of coercion : parastatal production of violence in Abu Ghraib / Laleh Khalili; title: Barring the Algerian subject : carcerality and resistance under market-statism / Sayres Rudy; title: Post-colonial policing and the "woman" question : a history of the women's police directorate in Bahrain / Staci Strobl; title: The police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period and the re-construction of the social formation /  Biriz Berksoy; title: Confining political dissent in Egypt before 1952 / Anthony Gorman; title: Observing the everyday : policing and the conditions of possibility in Gaza (1948-1967) / Ilana Feldman; title: Riot police and policing protest in Turkey / Ayssen Uysal; title: Incarcerated women, honorable women / Roberta Micallef; title: The victim's tale in Syria : imprisonment, individualism, and liberalism / Sune Haugbolle; title: Spectacles of death : dignity, dissent, and sacrifices in Turkey's prisons / Banu Bargu; title: Refusing mercy : challenging the state's monopoly on violence in Iran / Arzoo Osanloo; title: Locating dissent : space, law, and protest in Jordan / Jillian Schwedler and Sam Fayyaz.