Dr Rhys Machold
- Senior Lecturer (Political & International Studies)
telephone:
01413306715
email:
Rhys.Machold@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9842-392XBiography
I am a scholar of policing, security regimes, racialization and empire, working from a transnational approach. My work has focused primarily on India and Palestine/Israel and relations between them. My book, 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.
My current research and teaching interests engage with a number of overlapping themes and concerns: 1) state- and imperial forms of power, with a focus on security, policing, racial and carceral regimes across time and space, with a focus on wars on ‘terror’ and counterinsurgency campaigns; 2) the relational production of knowledge and expertise, inspired by engagement with geographical thinking and Science and Technology Studies (STS); 3) forms of anti-carceral, anti-imperial, anti-racist and abolitionist thought and praxis; 4) ongoing debates theory and pedagogy in International Relations, particularly inspired by anti-imperial, decolonial and feminist approaches; and 5) methodological concerns around secrecy, access, fragments and practices multi-sited ethnography.
I am an editor at Critical Studies on Security and an editorial board member at International Studies Review. Before arriving in Glasgow in 2018, I held research and teaching appointments at York University (Canada), the Danish Institute for International Studies, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Research interests
• Security, policing and carceral regimes
• ‘Terrorism’, counterterrorism & homeland security
• Insurgency and counterinsurgency
• Knowledge-production, expertise and weapons systems
• Empire, colonialism and settler-colonialism
• India/South Asia
• Palestine/Israel and the
Research groups
- International Relations
Supervision
- Park, Min Young
The Shadow Migration State: Examining the Role of Smuggling Networks in Tunisian Politics - Printy Currie, Nicole
Geographies of Life and Belonging in Palestine: the Practices of Retrieving the Incarcerated Dead