Book Forum: The Incarcerated Modern - Prisons and Public Life in Iran

Book Forum: The Incarcerated Modern - Prisons and Public Life in Iran

In this new Book Forum episode, we’re joined by Golnar Nikpour to discuss her illuminating book The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran. Nikpour traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few prisoners into a modern nation-state with one of the largest prison populations in the world. She explores how Iran's carceral system has not only policed citizens but also reshaped concepts of citizenship, freedom, and political belonging. By examining the writings, art, and activism that emerged from prison walls, Nikpour reveals how carceral confinement has profoundly influenced Iran’s political movements and public cultures.

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Book Forum - The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Book Forum - The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival researc...

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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In UNDERGROUND, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts, cinephiles, entrepreneurs, a...

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The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan

The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan

THE DISCOVERY OF IRAN offers a fresh perspective on Iranian nationalism, centring its analysis on critical intellectual debates emanating from a transnational experience of community of Iranian émigré...

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#MahsaAmini & Iran’s Feminist Revolution

#MahsaAmini & Iran’s Feminist Revolution

Since the senseless death of Mahsa Zhina Amini, Iranians poured onto the streets in rage and mourning. #MahsaAmini and the Kurdish slogan cried out at her funeral, “Women. Life. Freedom” have become t...

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Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization with Kian Tajbakhsh

Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization with Kian Tajbakhsh

Empirically rich and theoretically informed, CREATING LOCAL DEMOCRACY (Cambridge University Press) is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing u...

14 Nov 20221h

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice with Pamela Karimi

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice with Pamela Karimi

Drawing on spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1980s, ALTERNATIVE IRAN (Stanford University Press) illuminates the economic, political, and intellectual forces t...

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