Introduction. On the Significance of the Iranian Prison

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. On the Significance of the Iranian Prison 1
5. One. Lawlessness and Order. The Qajar Roots of Modern Prisons in Iran 34
6. Two. The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure: Building the Carceral Imagination in Pahlavi Iran 61
7. Three. Like a Fertile Storm. Prisons and Revolutionary Worldmaking in the Iranian Guerrilla Era 95
8. Four. The Iranian Prison Goes Global: Iranian Revolutionaries and the International Human Rights Movement 129
9. Five. Making an Example: Carceral Utopianism and Prison Expansion in Revolutionary Iran 166
10. Six. Carcerality beyond Prisons? The Politics of Punishment in the Contemporary Islamic Republic 191
11. Conclusion: Politics and Prisons beyond Reform 218
12. Notes 225
13. Bibliography 287
14. Index 319