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In the Middle East, the emergence of the modern nation-state has also produced a concentration in coercive power. The region now harbors numerous mukhabarat states that extensively police and incarcerate its citizens, engaging in widespread torture and implementing spectacular punishments.
This volume is the first to systematically examine these practices within modern Middle East states, unraveling the complex operations of state power and the unforeseen consequences of popular politics. The study identifies the colonial origins and post-independence genesis of policing and incarceration among a variety of states, linking the centrality of criminalization to dissident politics. It also maps the micropractices of policing and incarceration and sketches the ambiguous boundaries between the police and the military.
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Laleh Khalili is senior lecturer in Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration.
Jillian Schwedler is associate professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of, most recently, Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen.
An innovative and exciting approach to the study of power and its exercise, dynamics, and effects. Each chapter contributes important empirical and conceptual insights into the study of prisons and policing in the Middle East. Indeed, the wealth of new empirical material is very impressive.
(Nichola Pratt, author of Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0231701764
- ISBN 13 9780231701761
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
- EditorKhalili Laleh, Schwedler Jillian
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