Fabricating homeland security

• Verfasst von: Machold, Rhys [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Fabricating homeland security
• Titelzusatz: police entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
• Verf.angabe: Rhys Machold
• Verlagsort: Stanford, California
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xviii, 348 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karte
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: South Asia in motion
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3969-0
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-4071-9
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Innere Sicherheit / (s)Bewachungsgewerbe / (s)Sicherheit und Ordnung / (g)Palästina
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Machold, Rhys: Fabricating homeland security. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024 |(DLC)2024003648
• K10plus-PPN: 1885888112

Abstract

"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 developing the first all-encompassing approach to domestic surveillance and territorial control. Today, it is a central node in the $200 billion per year homeland security industry. And in the wake of 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 illustrates how homeland security is a universalizing project that seeks to remake the world in its image, and tells the story of how claims to global authority are fabricated and put to work"--