Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US
Wednesday 6 March 12:15 – 14:00 | Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Free School Lane
Speaker: Professor Julian Go, University of Chicago
Chair: Dr Filipe Carreira da Silva, University of Cambridge
Watch the Policing Empires lecture (recording can only be accessed with a Raven password due to copyright issues)
This lecture, drawing upon Go’s recently published book, Policing Empires, offered a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States. It tracked when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use since the founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present. It showed that militarization is an effect of the "imperial boomerang.” Police have brought imperial practices home in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations.
In conversation with Julian Go hosted by Cambridge University Sociology Society.
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