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"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"--
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Map of Mumbai
Introduction
1. Comparative Geopolitics
2. Homeland Security Pioneers
Interlude- A Reticent Embrace
3. Aftermaths
4. The Changing Same
5. Encountering Difference
6. Educating a Market
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Rhys Machold is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
