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Bahrain’s Uprising: Resistance and Repression in the Gulf is the culmination of four years of work by various authors from different backgrounds, including academia, the arts, politics, and education. The diverse selection of contributors was designed to capture how the uprising was interpreted by Bahrainis or those drawn to ‘Bahrain’ for whatever reason. Rather than solely adopting a postcolonial, political economy or sectarianism-centred approach, (all popular in studying the Gulf), we thought resistance and repression would work as a more appropriate lens to explore both the contemporary uprising and Bahrain’s lengthy history of contentious politics.
