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SUMMARY:Gunpowder\, treason and plot: policing political violence in Const
 antinople and Alexandria\, 1918-1923 - Daniel McArthur Seal (St Johns)
DTSTART:20131022T163000Z
DTEND:20131022T180000Z
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CONTACT:Gui Xi Young
DESCRIPTION:The cities of Alexandria and Istanbul seemed to present Britis
 h military authorities with a tangle of insidious plots against the lives 
 of their personnel\, while a perceptibly bloodthirsty populace were feared
  to be on the brink of indiscriminate mutual massacre. The paper explores 
 how such premonitions of violence\, fed by burgeoning intelligence capabil
 ities and colonial paranoia\, became the centrepieces of discourses legiti
 mating increasingly intrusive military rule. Consequent legislative measur
 es and counter-subversive operations established a regime of coercive viol
 ence that undermined diplomatic efforts to cast British occupation as a sy
 stem of Anglo-Egyptian or Anglo-Turkish cooperation in each case\, resulti
 ng in confrontation and retreat. The institutional architecture of repress
 ion\, however\, remained largely in tact\, and was passed on to new nation
 al regimes with the eventual blessing of its previous occupants\, creating
  an enduring legacy of militarised jurisdiction and policing that would be
  echoed in later waves of decolonisation.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2 Alison Richard Building
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