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SUMMARY:Policing Empires: Militarization\, Race\, and the Imperial Boomera
 ng in Britain and the US - Professor Julian Go\, The University of Chicago
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CONTACT:A B Youngman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Julian Go\, Professor of Sociology\, Univer
 sity of Chicago\n\nChair: Dr Filipe Carreira da Silva\, Fellow of Selwyn C
 ollege\, University of Cambridge\n\nThis lecture\, drawing upon Go’s rec
 ently published book\, Policing Empires\, offers a postcolonial historical
  sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States. It t
 racks when\, why\, and how British and US police departments have adopted 
 military tactics\, tools\, and technologies for domestic use since the fou
 nding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present. It sh
 ows 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.
LOCATION:Sociology Department Seminar Room\, Free School Lane and on-line
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