- This event has passed.
2024 Robert G. Bone Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, March 28 , 6:00 pm
Dr. Julian Go, professor and director of Graduate Studies and faculty affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago, will be giving a public talk on his new book, Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the U.S., 1829-present as the Robert G. Bone Distinguished Lecturer for 2024.
This talk, based on the book Policing Empires, offers a postcolonial historical sociology of militarized policing in Britain and the U.S. Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the 19th century to the present, and that it is an effect of the “imperial boomerang.” Police have brought home the tools and tactics of imperialism overseas to militarize themselves in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations.
This is based on his new book of the same title: global.oup.com/academic/product/policingempires-9780197621660
The Robert G. Bone Distinguished Lecture Series was established by the late Illinois State University President Robert G. Bone. Shared by the departments of History, Politics and Government, and Sociology and Anthropology, it brings distinguished scholars to Illinois State University to deliver a series of public lectures and to meet with faculty and students. This year’s lecture is sponsored by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology.
(309) 438-8668
SociologyAnthropology@IllinoisState.edu
