Torture & modernity : self, society, and state in modern Iran

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Torture & modernity : self, society, and state in modern Iran

Darius M. Rejali

（Institutional structures of feeling）

Westview Press, 1994

  • : pbk

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Torture and modernity

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780813316604

内容説明

Investigating torture in Iran, this book puts to the test the principal explanations of modern torture offered by four groups - human-rights activists, modernization theorists, state-terrorist theorists such as Noam Chomsky, and post-structuralists, especially Michel Foucault. The author's findings lead him to reconsider the very writing of Middle-Eastern and European history, and to question cherished assumptions about state formation, modernization and postmodernism. The book contains both graphic verbal accounts and an extensive photographic essay, and places the practice of Iranian torture within the history of punishment, looking at what happens not only in prisons, but also in families, hospitals, factories, schools and military institutions.

目次

  • Disciplines and tortures - Qajar punishments, disciplinary practices, disciplinary society, carceral society
  • tutelage and torture - protecting children, creating a moral public, convictions into prisons
  • orienting modernity - questioning the subject, the rationalization of Iranians, how not to talk about torture.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813318790

内容説明

What does the practice of torture presuppose about human beings and human society? How does one explain a society in which institutional torture persists despite massive changes in government and class structure? What, indeed, are the social foundations of modern torture? In Torture and Modernity, Darius M. Rejali investigates torture in Iran in order to understand and critically reconsider the politics and psychology of modern torture. In a world in which one out of every three governments today uses torture, Rejali points to a common past, one shared by Iranians and non-Iranians alike, that supports this practice. What does the practice of torture presuppose about human beings and human society? How does one explain a society in which institutional torture persists despite massive changes in government and class structure? What, indeed, are the social foundations of modern torture? In Culture and Modernity, Darius M. Rejali investigates torture in Iran in order to understand and critically reconsider the politics and psychology of modern torture. In a world in which one out of every three governments uses torture, Rejali points to a common past, one shared by Iranians and non-Iranians alike, that supports this practice.My aim, Rejali writes, is to use the study of torture, and of punishment more generally, to unearth deep and important assumptions about society, history, politics, and the good life that I believe underpin the life of a torturer.Exploring the four principle explanations of modern torturethose offered by human rights activists, modernization theorists, state terrorist theorists such as Noam Chomsky, and post-structuralists, especially Michel FoucaultRejali asks, Do the accounts of political violence that we have developed over the past century have any real explanatory or even moral significance in todays world, or are they just consolations in the face of events we cannot fully understand? His answers lead him to reconsider how Middle Eastern and European history are written and move him to question cherished assumptions about state formation, modernization, and post Torture and Modernity is a deeply unsettling bookit contains not only graphic verbal passages, but an extensive photographic essayyet it is intended to serve as a guide to rethinking current attitudes and reshaping political policies. How people are punished necessarily invokes conceptions of what human beings are and what they might become. A work such as this offers an understanding of what it means to become modern, and it is only when this notion of modernity is made manifest and analyzed that one can firmly grasp the prospects for a world without torture.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Disciplines And Tortures
  • Qajar Punishments
  • Disciplinary Practices
  • Disciplinary Society
  • Carceral Society
  • Tutelage And Torture
  • Protecting Children
  • Creating a Moral Public
  • Convictions into Prisons
  • Orienting Modernity
  • Questioning the Subject
  • The Rationalization of Iranians
  • How Not to Talk About Torture.

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