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The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life Iran

Current price: $130.00
The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life Iran
The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life Iran

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The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life Iran

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Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity.
The Incarcerated Modern
traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today. In policing the line between "bad criminal" and "good citizen," the carceral system has shaped and reshaped Iranian understandings of citizenship, freedom, and political belonging.
Golnar Nikpour explores the interplay between the concrete space of the Iranian prison and the role of prisons in producing new public cultures and political languages in Iran. From prison writings of 1920s leftist prisoners and communiqués of 1950s militant Islamists, to paintings of 1970s revolutionary guerrillas and mapping projects organized by contemporary dissident prisoners, carceral confinement has shaped modern Iranian political movements. Today, mass incarceration is a global phenomenon.
connects Iranian history to transnational carceral histories to illuminate the shared architectures, economies, and techniques of modern punishment.

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