Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel
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).
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6
Speaker: Dr Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organisers: Kendall Gardner, Theo Hickfang, Miyo Peck-Suzuki
Organiser contact email address: kendall.gardner@magd.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Critical Theory Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Kendall Gardner