Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel (Stanford University Press, 2024) traces the political fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, often known as “India’s 9/11” or simply “26/11”, concentrating on the efforts of Israel’s homeland security to advise and equip Indian city and state governments. Drawing on more than a decade of multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, it situates homeland security as a universalizing project, which seeks to remake the world in its image. The book tells the story of how claims to global authority are fabricated and worked out on the ground.

Event will feature comments from Naji Safadi (Oxford) and Sameer Bhat (Oxford).