A Hunger Strike - The Ecology of a Protest: The Case of Bahraini Activist Abdulhad al-Khawaja
A Hunger Strike - The Ecology of a Protest: The Case of Bahraini Activist Abdulhad al-Khawaja
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绝食抗议——抗议的生态：巴林活动家阿卜杜勒哈德·卡瓦贾的案例
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10.5204/mcj.509
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2012
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A. Howarth
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A. Howarth
本文以一位巴林活动人士为例，探讨绝食抗议的双重相关生态。第一个生态学是将监狱绝食作为一种旨在达到政治目的的（自我）破坏的物质环境行为的伦理框架。第二个生态是全球媒体的运作，国际社会的不作为无意中突显了围绕埃及、利比亚和叙利亚的更大事件和话语所掩盖的政治斗争。连接这两种生态的是绝食者的身体，变成了一种奇观，并通过一种情感政治来调解，邀请全球公众同情并进入他的痛苦。这两者之间的联系在于绝食者Abdulhadi al-Khawaja瘦弱的身体
This article uses the case of a Bahraini activist to explore the twin interrelated ecologies of a hunger strike. The first ecology is the ethical framing of a prison hunger strike as a corporeal-environmental act of (self) destruction intended to achieve political ends. The second ecology is the operation of global media where international inaction inadvertently foregrounds the political struggles that larger events and discourses surrounding Egypt, Libya and Syria overshadow. What connects these two ecologies is the body of the hunger striker, turned into a spectacle and mediated via a politics of affect that invites a global public to empathize and so enter into his suffering. The connection between the two lies in the emaciated body of the hunger striker in this case, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja