Join us for a book talk with Rhys Machold to explore the entanglement of homeland security across India and Palestine/Israel.
Based on the book Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel (Stanford University Press, 2024), Rhys Machold will trace homeland security’s origins in the Zionist colonization of Palestine and subsequent efforts by Israel’s homeland security industry to ‘penetrate’ India in the course of the global ‘war on terror’. By charting these less known histories and geographies of homeland security, the talk will raise urgent political questions about the actually existing extent of security’s self-implied universality and inevitability, even in places and societies deeply imbricated in empire and capitalist social relations.
Rhys Machold is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Through engagements with International Relations, political geography and urban studies, his research has focused on exploring regimes of power, violence and empire from a transnational perspective. He is author of Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel (Stanford University Press, 2024) and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Security.
Our discussant, Naveena Naqvi is a historian of early modern and modern South Asia and Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia.
