Dr Rhys Machold

  • Senior Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

Biography

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

Publications

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Number of items: 20.

2024

Machold, R. and Printy Currie, N. (2024) Al Aqsa Flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance. Political Geography, (Accepted for Publication)

Machold, R. (2024) Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel. Series: South Asia in Motion. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503639690 (Accepted for Publication)

Machold, R. (2024) Semiotics of Rape: Sexual subjectivity and Violation in Rural India. AAG Review of Books, 12(3), pp. 23-25. (doi: 10.1080/2325548X.2024.2350388)[Book Review]

Machold, R. and Sen, S. (2024) Refusing police power: resistances and ambivalences to state violence. Society and Space Open Site, 22 April.

2023

Machold, R. (2023) Unsettling the Hamas taboo: fragments, narrative and the politics of exposure. International Politics Reviews, 60, pp. 754-761. (doi: 10.1057/s41311-023-00457-5)

Machold, R. (2023) Staying with the failures: Iron Dome and Zionist security “innovation”. In: Joronen, M. and Griffiths, M. (eds.) Encounters with Colonial Power: Emergent Spaces of Violence and Struggle in Palestine. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln. (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Machold, R. (2022) India’s counterinsurgency knowledge: theorizing global position in wars on terror. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 33(4-5), pp. 796-818. (doi: 10.1080/09592318.2022.2034352)

2021

Machold, R. and Charrett, C. C. (2021) Beyond ambivalence: locating the whiteness of security. Security Dialogue, 52(1_supp), pp. 38-48. (doi: 10.1177/09670106211031044)

Machold, R. (2021) The Iron Dome System Is a Monument to Israel’s Hubris. [Website]

2020

Machold, R. and Bhungalia, L. (2020) "Violence Work". Society and Space Open Site, 24 Aug. [Book Review]

Velednitsky, S., Salazar Hughes, S. and Machold, R. (2020) Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism. Geography Compass, 14(6), e12490. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12490)

Machold, R. (2020) Policing reality: Urban disorder, failure, and expert undoings. International Political Sociology, 14(1), pp. 22-39. (doi: 10.1093/ips/olz027)

2019

Machold, R. (2019) The Privatization of Israeli Security By Shir Hever. London: Pluto Press, 2018. 256 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-7453-3720-3. Conflict and Society, 5(1), pp. 204-205. (doi: 10.3167/arcs.2019.050113)[Book Review]

2018

Machold, R. (2018) Reconsidering the laboratory thesis: Palestine/Israel and the geopolitics of representation. Political Geography, 65, pp. 88-97. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.04.002)

2017

Machold, R. (2017) Militarising Mumbai? The ‘politics’ of response. Contexto Internacional, 39(3), pp. 477-498. (doi: 10.1590/s0102-8529.2017390300002)

2016

Machold, R. (2016) Security Preparedness in European Cities. Is it really time to learn from Israel? Documentation. DIIS: Danish Institute for International Studies.

Machold, R. (2016) Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance. Security Dialogue, 47(4), pp. 275-291. (doi: 10.1177/0967010616645019)

2015

Machold, R. (2015) Mobility and the model: policy mobility and the becoming of Israeli Homeland Security dominance. Environment and Planning A, 47(4), pp. 816-832. (doi: 10.1068/a140010p)

Machold, R. (2015) Intervention – “Re-enacting Israel’s Counter-terror Omnipotence: An Opening”. [Website]

2011

Pelkmans, M. and Machold, R. (2011) Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories. Focaal, 2011(59), pp. 66-80. (doi: 10.3167/fcl.2011.590105)

This list was generated on Fri Nov 8 01:31:07 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 20.

Articles

Machold, R. and Printy Currie, N. (2024) Al Aqsa Flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance. Political Geography, (Accepted for Publication)

Machold, R. and Sen, S. (2024) Refusing police power: resistances and ambivalences to state violence. Society and Space Open Site, 22 April.

Machold, R. (2023) Unsettling the Hamas taboo: fragments, narrative and the politics of exposure. International Politics Reviews, 60, pp. 754-761. (doi: 10.1057/s41311-023-00457-5)

Machold, R. (2022) India’s counterinsurgency knowledge: theorizing global position in wars on terror. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 33(4-5), pp. 796-818. (doi: 10.1080/09592318.2022.2034352)

Machold, R. and Charrett, C. C. (2021) Beyond ambivalence: locating the whiteness of security. Security Dialogue, 52(1_supp), pp. 38-48. (doi: 10.1177/09670106211031044)

Velednitsky, S., Salazar Hughes, S. and Machold, R. (2020) Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism. Geography Compass, 14(6), e12490. (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12490)

Machold, R. (2020) Policing reality: Urban disorder, failure, and expert undoings. International Political Sociology, 14(1), pp. 22-39. (doi: 10.1093/ips/olz027)

Machold, R. (2018) Reconsidering the laboratory thesis: Palestine/Israel and the geopolitics of representation. Political Geography, 65, pp. 88-97. (doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.04.002)

Machold, R. (2017) Militarising Mumbai? The ‘politics’ of response. Contexto Internacional, 39(3), pp. 477-498. (doi: 10.1590/s0102-8529.2017390300002)

Machold, R. (2016) Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance. Security Dialogue, 47(4), pp. 275-291. (doi: 10.1177/0967010616645019)

Machold, R. (2015) Mobility and the model: policy mobility and the becoming of Israeli Homeland Security dominance. Environment and Planning A, 47(4), pp. 816-832. (doi: 10.1068/a140010p)

Pelkmans, M. and Machold, R. (2011) Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories. Focaal, 2011(59), pp. 66-80. (doi: 10.3167/fcl.2011.590105)

Books

Machold, R. (2024) Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel. Series: South Asia in Motion. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503639690 (Accepted for Publication)

Book Sections

Machold, R. (2023) Staying with the failures: Iron Dome and Zionist security “innovation”. In: Joronen, M. and Griffiths, M. (eds.) Encounters with Colonial Power: Emergent Spaces of Violence and Struggle in Palestine. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln. (Accepted for Publication)

Book Reviews

Machold, R. (2024) Semiotics of Rape: Sexual subjectivity and Violation in Rural India. AAG Review of Books, 12(3), pp. 23-25. (doi: 10.1080/2325548X.2024.2350388)[Book Review]

Machold, R. and Bhungalia, L. (2020) "Violence Work". Society and Space Open Site, 24 Aug. [Book Review]

Machold, R. (2019) The Privatization of Israeli Security By Shir Hever. London: Pluto Press, 2018. 256 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-7453-3720-3. Conflict and Society, 5(1), pp. 204-205. (doi: 10.3167/arcs.2019.050113)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Machold, R. (2016) Security Preparedness in European Cities. Is it really time to learn from Israel? Documentation. DIIS: Danish Institute for International Studies.

Website

Machold, R. (2021) The Iron Dome System Is a Monument to Israel’s Hubris. [Website]

Machold, R. (2015) Intervention – “Re-enacting Israel’s Counter-terror Omnipotence: An Opening”. [Website]

This list was generated on Fri Nov 8 01:31:07 2024 GMT.

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