Digital De-Citizenship

The Rise of the Digital Denizen in Bahrain

Bibliographic Data

ID8966528
AuthorsMarc Owen Jones (0000-0002-4397-8004, Hamad bin Khalifa University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume52
Issue4
Pages740-747
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743820001038
OpenAlexW3117814163
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

Revolutions seldom involve more than one percent of the population. However, in Bahrain, a small island nation with a population of around 570,000, twenty percent of the population took to the streets in February 2011 to demand greater democratic reform, making it “proportionally one of the greatest shows of ‘people power’ in modern history.” The regime's response was disproportionally brutal. Saudi-dominated troops from the Gulf Cooperation Council Peninsula Shield Force were “invited to” or “invaded” Bahrain, depending on who is telling the story. Under cover of the Saudi military, Bahrain's security forces killed dozens of civilians, torturing, maiming, and raping many others. The arsenal of repressive techniques was exhaustive. Belonging also was used as a tool of repression, with many being stripped of their Bahraini citizenship on spurious, terror-related charges

Ancient history · Archaeology · Citizenship · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Security forces · Sociology · Demography · History · ICT in Developing Communities · Law · Social Media and Politics

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