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The Research Centre in International Relations (RCIR) is delighted to invite you to the book talk by Dr Rhys Machold, ‘Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel’ (Standford University Press 2024).
What is homeland security, and how does it remake the world in its own image?
In his new book, "Fabricating Homeland Security," Machold traces the origins of homeland security in the Zionist colonization of Palestine and examines subsequent efforts by Israel’s homeland security industry to ‘penetrate’ India during the global ‘war on terror’. By charting these lesser-known histories and geographies of homeland security, the book raises urgent political questions about the extent of homeland security’s self-implied universality and inevitability - even in places and societies deeply imbricated in empire and capitalist social relations.
The discussion will be moderated by Dr Doerthe Rosenow, Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of War Studies and author of Un-making Environmental Activism: Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy (Routledge 2018).
Please join us for this special edition event, followed by a Q&A and a drinks reception.
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.
The event will take place in the River Room, located on the second floor of the King’s Building. A member of our team will be stationed at the King’s Building reception to welcome attendees, register you, and direct you to the venue.
About the RCIR Speaker Series
The RCIR Speaker Series is an initiative of the Research Centre in International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. The Centre conducts research on practices of security and conflict, their transformation, and their wider social and political implications.
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The River RoomKing's Building
Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS