States of Exception or Exceptional States

Simon Mabon is Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University, UK, where he directs SEPAD and the Richardson Institute.Sanaa Alsarghali is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at An-Najaj National University, Palestine, where she is the Director of the Constitutional Studies Center. Adel Ruished is PhD Researcher in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Philosophy, Politics and Religion, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK.

• List of Contributors Foreword AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. States of Exception, Bare Life and Agamben in the Middle EastSimon Mabon, Lancaster University, UK 2. The Gulf Cooperation Council Police Imagined: The State of Exception and Transnational PolicingStaci Strobl, University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Simon Mabon, Lancaster University, UK3. Claiming Agency in the Iraqi State of ExceptionEdith Szanto , University of Alabama, USA4. Institutionalizing Authoritarianism: Egypt, Al Sisi and the State of ExceptionLucia Ardovini, Lancaster University, UK5. A Forced Marriage? Palestine and the State of ExceptionSanaa Alsarghali, An-Najah National University, PalestineChapter 6: States of Exception and Emergency in the Post Arab Uprisings Middle East Lucia Ardovini, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden6. Soverign Power in an Icy Climate: An Exploration of Violence, Environmental Challenges and Displacement in the Bekka Valley, LebanonAna Maria Kumarasamy, Lancaster University, UK 7. Penal Portents, Penal Precedents and Spectacles of Unbearable Life Madonna Kalousian, Lancaster University, UK8. The Politics of Secular Cultural Property in East Jerusalem: The Case of Birket Hamam Al-BatrakAdel Ruished, Lancaster University, UK9. Biopolitics, Destituent Resistance and Power-Sharing in Post-War LebanonJohn Nagle, Queen’s University Belfast, UKConcluding Observations Index