Anna Feigenbaum

Anna Feigenbaum is a lecturer in media and politics at Bournemouth University. She is an author of Protest Camps (forthcoming with Zed) and is currently writing a book about the political history of tear gas to be published with Verso. Follow@drfigtree on Twitter

The rise of resistance and resilience to tear gas

Tear gas turns the square, the march and the public assembly into a toxic space.

By Anna Feigenbaum

/ 27 Jul 2018

White-washing the water cannon: salesmen, scientific experts and human rights abuses

Scrubbing away the white-wash of 'less lethal' riot control reveals a history littered with humanitarian disasters, weaponisation, inadequate testing, and corporate profiteering. What does a 'public consultation' on water cannon mean when this history is hidden?

By Anna Feigenbaum

/ 25 Feb 2014

A hundred years of toxic humanitarianism

The history of tear gas traces a metamorphosis from chemical weapon of warfare to 'legitimate' crowd control technology. Whilst casualties are persistently blamed on 'misuse' by police and security forces, history reveals tear gas to be an inherently dangerous weapon.

By Anna Feigenbaum

/ 24 Jul 2013