BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/from-citizen-to-sub ject-police-militarisation-and-the-imperial-boomerang/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d64ac835-7d24-41f5-b244-6f97c99b736d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260522T070856 DTSTART:20260527T173000 DTEND:20260527T190000 SUMMARY:From citizen to subject: police militarisation and the imperial bo omerang LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Ol d Theatre\, Old Building) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 27 May 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerProfessor Julian GoDi scussantDr Mahvish AhmadChairProfessor Aaron ReevesMilitarised policing is one of the preconditions for fascist rule\, but how and why would police in liberal democracies militarise?This lecture explores police militarisat ion in Britain and the US from the beginnings of modern police through the present. It shows that militarisation is not the product of right-leaning regimes only but rather an effect of the imperial boomerang. Militarisati on reflects the tactics and tools of empire brought home to manage perceiv ed racialised threats.Meet our speakers and chairJulian Go is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago where he is also a Faculty Affilia te in the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics & Culture and The Commit tee on International Relation. He is also a Fellow of the Chicago Center f or Contemporary Theory and former President of the Social Science History Association. He is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge Universit y.Mahvish Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics. Be fore joining LSE\, she was an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centr e for Humanities Research\, University of the Western Cape. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Cambridge. Earlier\, Mahvish was a journalist cove ring military and insurgent violence in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region\, and co-founded the bilingual Urdu/English magazine Tanqeed with Madiha Tah ir.Aaron Reeves is Professor of Sociology at LSE. His work studies the cau ses and consequences of social inequality\, with a focus on the political economy of health\, welfare reform\, and processes of elite formation. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review\, America n Journal of Sociology\, The Lancet\, British Medical Journal\, and Socio- Economic Review.More about this eventJoin us on campus or register to watc h the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams\ , allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE\, wherever you are in the world. 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