Fabricating Homeland Security : Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel / Rhys Machold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machold, Rhys, author.

Series:

South Asia in motion.

South Asia in Motion Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal security--India.

Internal security.

Terrorism--India--Prevention.

Terrorism.

India--Relations--Israel.

India.

Israel--Relations--India.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term "homeland security" is closely associated with the United States, Israel is credited with first developing this all-encompassing approach to domestic surveillance and territorial control. Today, it is a central node in the sprawling global homeland security industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars. And in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, India emerged as a major growth market. Known as "India's 9/11" or simply "26/11," the attacks sparked significant public pressure to adopt "modern" homeland security approaches. Since 2008, India has become not only the single largest buyer of Israeli conventional weapons, but also a range of other surveillance technology, police training, and security expertise. Pairing insights from science and technology studies with those from decolonial and postcolonial theory, Fabricating Homeland Security traces 26/11's political and policy fallout, concentrating on the efforts of Israel's homeland security industry to advise and equip Indian city and state governments. Through a focus on the often unseen and overlooked political struggles at work in the making of homeland security, Rhys Machold details how homeland security is a universalizing project, which seeks to remake the world in its image, and tells the story of how claims to global authority are fabricated and put to work.

Contents:

Comparative geopolitics

Homeland security pioneers

Interlude : a reticent embrace

Aftermaths

The changing same

Encountering difference

Educating a market.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Machold, Rhys Fabricating Homeland Security

ISBN:

9781503640726

OCLC:

1453198852