01526nam a2200229 a 4500 ASIN1849040583 OSt 20170105102904.0 131021s2010 xxu eng d 1849040583 (paperback) 9781849040587 (paperback) 0 363.230956 POL 2010 Policing and prisons in the middle east : formations of coercion / Laleh Khalili, Jillian Schwedler. [S.l.] : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2010. 352 p. ; 22 cm. The emergence of the modern Middle East has been accompanied by a concentration of coercive power in the state. Although the region has encompassed numerous Mukhabarat (secret police) states, extensive policing and carceral regimes, and widespread use of torture and spectacular punishments, and although its prisons and policing practices are regularly condemned by human rights organisations, surprisingly few analyses explore the emergence of these grim institutions. This volume is the first to examine systematically practices of policing and incarceration in the modern Middle East, the emergence of modern policing and prisons and their continued predominance. It offers a useful lens through which the complexity of state power and the contours of popular contentious politics can be read. Khalili, Laleh. Schwedler, Jillian. Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1849040583/chopaconline-20 ddc BK 14769 14769 0 0 0 0 NFIC CIPS CIPS GEN 2013-09-10 0 363.230956 POL 2010 CIPS0000938 2013-10-21 2013-10-21 BK