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Title Policing and prisons in the Middle East : formations of coercion / edited by Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler
Published London : C. Hurst & Co., 2010

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Description xiv, 300 pages ; 22 cm
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 sacrifices 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 Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Police -- Middle East.
Prisons -- Middle East.
Author Khalili, Laleh.
Schwedler, Jillian.
ISBN 1849040575 (hbk.)
1849040583 (paperback)
9781849040570 (hbk.)
9781849040587