Bahrain’s Uprising: Resistance and repression in the Gulf

Front Cover\nAbout the Editors\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nAbout the contributors\nForeword: On the prelude to the 14 February Uprising\n	Prelude\n	A shift in tactics of protest and repression\n	Changes in protest repertoires\n	A final note\nIntroduction: Bahrain’s uprising: The struggle for democracy in the Gulf\n	Part I: Voices of the condemned\n	Part II: Configuring dissent – charting movements,space, and self-representation in Bahrain\n	Part III: Suppressing dissent in an acceptable manner – modes of repression, colonial legacies, and institutional violence\n	Future directions: prospects of democratisation and social justice\n	This book\nPart One: Voices of the condemned\n	Chapter 1: A trial of thoughts and ideas\n		A trial against ideas\n		The causes of the political crisis\n		An ethical stance against violence\n		A charge of violence to suppress and exclude the opposition\n		Malicious charges\n		First: the charge of overthrowing the regime by force\n		Second: the charge of inciting hatred and contempt of the regime\n		Third: the charge of broadcasting and disseminating fabricated news and false rumours\n		Fourth: the charge of insulting the army\n	Chapter 2: God after ten o’clock\n		The State Security Building: the first arrest of the seagull\n		The seagull’s plea before the sea\n		Cages for seagulls that might be born\n	Chapter 3: A room with a view: An eyewitness to the Pearl Uprising\n		Part one: the ‘cleansing’ of the Pearl Roundabout\n		Part two: unarmed and shot in the back – there turn to the Pearl Roundabout\n		Part three: the classroom, the protests, and a foreign army\n		Part four: back to Bahrain and goodbye\nPart Two: Configuring dissent: Charting movements, space, and self-representation in Bahrain\n	Chapter 4: Shifting contours of activism and possibilities for justice in Bahrain\n		Bahrain’s ‘advocacy revolution’\n		Beyond borders: internationalising the human rights struggle\n		A history of a rights-based social movement\n		False hopes and the mirage of liberal democracy\n		From tactics to enshrining secular rights principles: the attraction of human rights and the proliferation of NGOs\n		A brief topography of opposition actors\n		Upgrading authoritarianism\n		Is human rights advocacy enough? Where do we go from here?\n		New realms, new possibilities, new times\n	Chapter 5: The many afterlives of Lulu: The story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout\n		The birth of Lulu\n		Roundabouts and amnesia\n		Lulu rising\n		The splintered image\n	Chapter 6: Tn Tn Ttn and torture in Bahrain: Puncturing the spectacle of the ‘Arab Spring’\n		Tn Tn Ttn: a short film\n		The ‘visual rush’ and the problematic ‘spectacle’ of the Arab uprisings\n		Controlling the ‘field of representability’ of the national self-image\n		Puncturing the ‘field of representability’ with state violence\n		Puncturing the ‘field of representability’ with creative resistance\nPart Three: Suppressing dissent in an acceptable manner: Modes of repression, colonial legacies,and institutional violence\n	Chapter 7: On the side of decency and democracy: The history of British–Bahraini relations and transnational contestation\n		Bahrain’s long ‘friendship’ with Britain\n		Outside Bahrain but inside the people: Bahrain’s opposition abroad\n		Bahraini activism in the UK\n		‘A right way to frame things’: contesting British–Bahraini relations\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 8: Rotten apples or rotten orchards: Police deviance, brutality, and unaccountability in Bahrain\n		The absence of consent: the emergence of colonial, tribal, and ethnic policing in Bahrain\n		The Al Khalifa and the post-independence police state\n		The institutionalisation of deviance and sectarian policing\n		The quality of recruits: from villains to mercenaries\n		Mercenaries, ancillaries, and baltajiyya\n		Brutal redux: policing the Bahrain Uprising of 2011\n		State unaccountability and impunity\n		The role of society\n		Asymmetric policing and systemic police deviance\n	Chapter 9: Social media, surveillance, and cyberpolitics in the Bahrain Uprising\n		The growth of web activism and control in Bahrain\n		Surveillance and sousveillance\n		Social media, surveillance, and counter revolutionary vigilante sousveillance\n		The anti-social movement surveillance state\n		Concluding remarks\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex