Ajam Podcast #41: The Incarcerated Modern in Iran & Global Solidarity

Episode 41 April 30, 2024 01:13:27
Ajam Podcast #41: The Incarcerated Modern in Iran & Global Solidarity
Ajam Media Collective Podcast
Ajam Podcast #41: The Incarcerated Modern in Iran & Global Solidarity

Apr 30 2024 | 01:13:27

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Show Notes

In this episode, Belle interviews Golnar Nikpour, Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College, about her recent book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024). In The Incarcerated Modern (and our podcast episode), Nikpour addresses the history of imprisonment and incarceration in Iran, and how it is intertwined with threads of carceral infrastructures traversing the globe from the late nineteenth century to today. We also discuss global solidarity movements in honor of May Day. 

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