The biopolitical theatre: tracing sovereignty and history in the 2009 Iranian show-trials.

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dc.contributor.authorShohadaei, Setareh
dc.contributor.supervisorWalker, R. B. J.
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-26T21:38:56Z
dc.date.available2011-08-26T21:38:56Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-08-26
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis work looks at the 2009 Iranian show-trials through modern discourses of biopolitics, sovereignty, and history. I argue that, understood as a theatrical phenomenon, the show trials are situated within the Foucauldian mode of biopower. The latter entails a shift from a politics of death to the preservation of the bios. The show-trials also perform a particularly modern narrative of state sovereignty and teleological history. To consider them in this way requires a rethinking of Michel Foucault’s theory so as to include juridico-philosophical discourse within a biopolitical framework. I propose that, as a performative act, the confessions transform the very thing they are confessing. Through the work of Jean Baudrillard and Jacque Derrida, I argue that the confessions make possible a reconceptualization of the political space of sovereignty as simulacrum and that of the political time of history as hauntology.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationShohadaei, Setareh. "The Sovereign Confessions: International Relations and the Iranian Post-Elections Show-Trials." In Illumine: Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Graduate Students Association Vol 9, No 1 (2010): 108-132.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3511
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectBiopoliticsen_US
dc.subjectConfessionen_US
dc.subjectIranen_US
dc.subjectGreen Movementen_US
dc.subjectShow-Trialen_US
dc.subjectSovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectSimulacrumen_US
dc.subjectHauntologyen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Theatreen_US
dc.titleThe biopolitical theatre: tracing sovereignty and history in the 2009 Iranian show-trials.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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