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The Incarcerated Modern
Prisons and Public Life in Iran
Golnar Nikpour

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Significance of the Iranian Prison
1Lawlessness and Order: The Qajar Roots of Modern Prisons in Iran
2The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure: Building the Carceral Imagination in Pahlavi Iran
3Like a Fertile Storm: Prisons and Revolutionary Worldmaking in the Iranian Guerrilla Era
4The Iranian Prison Goes Global: Iranian Revolutionaries and the International Human Rights Movement
5Making an Example: Carceral Utopianism and Prison Expansion in Revolutionary Iran
6Carcerality beyond Prisons?: The Politics of Punishment in the Contemporary Islamic Republic
Conclusion: Politics and Prisons beyond Reform
Notes
Bibliography
Index