Table of Contents for The Incarcerated Modern

The Incarcerated Modern
Prisons and Public Life in Iran
Golnar Nikpour

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Significance of the Iranian Prison

1.Lawlessness and Order: The Qajar Roots of Modern Prisons in Iran

2.The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure: Building the Carceral Imagination in Pahlavi Iran

3.Like a Fertile Storm: Prisons and Revolutionary Worldmaking in the Iranian Guerrilla Era

4.The Iranian Prison Goes Global: Iranian Revolutionaries and the International Human Rights Movement

5.Making an Example: Carceral Utopianism and Prison Expansion in Revolutionary Iran

6.Carcerality beyond Prisons?: The Politics of Punishment in the Contemporary Islamic Republic

Conclusion: Politics and Prisons beyond Reform

Notes

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