Torture & modernity Book

	List of Tables and Illustrations
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
	How to Study Torture	2
	In What Way Is Torture Modern?	4
	How to Read This Book	7
Pt. 1	Disciplines and Tortures	11
	Foucault's Iran
2	Qajar Punishments	18
	The Offense of Bodies	19
	The Conduct of Bodies	21
	The Power to Take Life	26
	Carnival of Signs	29
	Shahs and Clerics	31
	Conclusion	32
3	Disciplinary Practices	33
	Disciplinary Matrices	35
	Imitating Discipline	41
4	Disciplinary Society	43
	Military Reforms	44
	Political Reforms	47
	Medical and Moral Reforms	49
	Progressive Reforms	52
	Penal Reforms	54
	Police Reforms	56
	Tribal and Rural Reforms	58
	Disciplinary Society	60
5	Carceral Society	62
	The Model of Delinquency	63
	Case Files	67
	The Carceral Clinic	70
	Open Prisons	73
	Proactive Policing	77
	What Is Torture?	79
Pt. 2	Tutelage and Torture	83
6	Protecting Children	86
	The Moral Freedom of Rich Families	89
	Socializing the Modern Working Class	93
	Tehran's Moral Geography	99
7	Creating a Moral Public	101
	Pastoral Politics	101
	The New Clergy	105
	The War Against Corruption	107
	Tutelary Policing	109
	Conclusion	112
8	Convictions into Prisons	113
	Carceral Practices	113
	Tutelary Practices	118
	Islam and Punishment	121
	Reasons of State	127
	Revolution and Terror	130
Pt. 3	Orienting Modernity	133
9	Questioning the Subject	135
10	The Rationalization of Iranians	145
	Punishment and Rationalization	146
	Historical Ontologies	149
	State Capacity	156
11	How Not to Talk About Torture	160
	The Humanist Approach	160
	The Developmentalist Approach	165
	The State Terrorist Approach	167
	Nietzsche's Children	170
	The Road from Here	173
	Appendix A: A Study of Political Visibility	177
	Appendix B: A Chronology of Events in Modern Iranian History, 1790-1991	207
	Appendix C: A Glossary of Farsi and Arabic Terms	211
	Notes	215
	Selected Bibliography	255
	About the Book and Author	277
	Index	279