Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

Egypt got here to manipulate Gaza because of a conflict, a failed effort to keep up Arab Palestine. All through the twenty years of its administration (1948–1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza involved itself not solely with crime and politics, but additionally with management of social and ethical order. Via surveillance, interrogation, and a community of native informants, the police prolonged their attain throughout the general public area and into non-public life, seeing Palestinians as each safety threats and susceptible topics who wanted safety. Safety practices produced suspicion and security concurrently.

Police Encounters explores the paradox of Egyptian rule. Drawing on a wealthy and detailed archive of day by day police data, the e book describes an intensive safety equipment guided by intersecting considerations about nationwide curiosity, social propriety, and on a regular basis illegality. In pursuit of safety, Egyptian policing established a comparatively secure society, but additionally one which blocked unbiased political exercise. The repressive elements of the safety society that developed in Gaza beneath Egyptian rule are past dispute. However repression doesn’t inform your complete story about its impression on Gaza. Policing additionally supplied alternatives for folks to make claims of presidency, affect their neighbors, and shield their households.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00WG2L2BG
Writer ‏ : ‎ Stanford College Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ Might 13, 2015
Version ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File dimension ‏ : ‎ 6.6 MB
Display screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Smart ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 225 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804795371
Web page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
A part of sequence ‏ : ‎ Stanford Research in Center Jap and Islamic Societies and Cultures