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Who are the World’s Heaviest Tear Gas Users?

Posted on March 21, 2016March 19, 2016 by Anna Feigenbaum

Our 2015 Mapping the Media project on Tear Gas is now live! Check out the maps on our BU Civic Media Hub website.

Everyday tear gas is used around the world, from Brazil to Bahrain, from Thailand to the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Yet, while journalists file news stories of tear gas deployments, there is no national or international data recorded on its use or its effects.

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While researchers and campaign groups work hard to raise awareness of the true effects of tear gas, its health effects remain undetermined and its death toll ill-defined. Data on tear gas is dispersed across nations, suppressed by governments, and spun by corporate manufacturers with a vested interest in keeping sales figures high. Largely unregulated and unmonitored, the for-profit transnational trade in tear gas continues to raise legal questions, as people around the world face its repressive and often violent effects.

Mapping Tear Gas seeks to aggregate incident reports on tear gassing in the media in efforts to make public the frequency and motivations for its use. The maps form part of a research project led by Dr. Anna Feigenbaum, Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at Bournemouth University. The 2015 mapping was done by Dr. Feigenbaum and Laura McKenna. Our 2013 maps were designed by Matt K Ellis using data collected by Dr. Feigenbaum.

All recorded location and text data that is visualised on these maps is derived from news reports via a google news alert in English. While it provides an overall picture, the data captured is incomplete, as many incidences go unreported, or are documented but not caught by the google news filter.

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