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Rhys Machold is a scholar focused on policing, security regimes, and racialization within the context of empire, employing a transnational approach. His primary work includes the book 'Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements India Palestine/Israel' set for publication by Stanford University Press in 2024. This work explores the political repercussions of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, often referred to as India's 9/11 or 26/11, emphasizing how Israel's homeland security strategies influence Indian city-state governance. His research is grounded in over a decade of multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, analyzing the universality of homeland security projects and their implications for global governance. Machold's interests encompass state-imperial power structures, counterinsurgency, relational knowledge production in Science Technology Studies (STS), and decolonial methodological debates in International Relations. He serves on the editorial board of 'Critical Studies on Security' and 'International Studies Review'. Since arriving at the University of Glasgow in 2018, Machold has held academic positions at York University (Canada) and other institutes, contributing to contemporary discussions on security and racial issues in international contexts.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK
Teaching and research in Political and International Studies.