Global Uprising: Policing as Politics, Policing as War

Global Uprising  // A year-long series 2020-2021:

Global Uprising is a year-long series that revolves around one question: how do we rethink collective action from our present?  Taking the current anti-racist uprising in America and the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolts as launching points for a set of workshops this series delves into the global coordinates of uprising today.  Read more about the series here.

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GLOBAL UPRISING: POLICING AS POLITICS, POLICING AS WAR

Jan 26, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup

Uprising everywhere seems to take the excessive power of police as a clarion call.  From the Middle East to the US, "police" appears as a name for the broad systemic injustice of modes of rule. And though the militarization of police is a given, some questions remain unclear.  How has policing blurred the line between itself and war? In turn, how has the policing-war complex become a modality inseparable from wider politics? Or, from the predatory and dispossessive mechanisms of global capitalism? What is the place of counter-insurgency and national liberation movements in this history? How has the Middle East played a role in this wider global assemblage? How do we conceptualize this space of indistinction? And counter it? How have insurrectionist moments both pegged back and come unstuck against police power?

Join the Kevorkian Center with w/  Nadia Abu El-Haj, Paul Amar, Stuart Schrader & discussant Nikhil Pal Singh on January 26, 2021, at 12:30 pm (EST) to think through these questions and discuss these issues together. To register please follow the link here or copy and paste the link to your browser: bit.ly/NYUKevoGU126

The recipient of numerous awards, including from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, she is the author of numerous journal articles published on a range of topics including settler-nationhood in Israel/Palestine; race, genomics and the politics of (Jewish) identity; and militarism, combat trauma and the obligations of citizenship in the contemporary U.S.

He holds affiliate appointments in Feminist Studies, Sociology, Comparative Literature, Middle East Studies, and Latin American & Iberian Studies, and has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships in the past. Before he began his academic career, he worked as a journalist in Cairo, a police reformer and sexuality-rights activist in Rio de Janeiro, and as a conflict-resolution and economic-development specialist at the United Nations. His books include: Cairo Cosmopolitan (2006); New Racial Missions of Policing (2010); Global South to the Rescue (2011); Dispatches from the Arab Spring (2013); and The Middle East and Brazil (2014). His book "The Security Archipelago" was awarded the Charles Taylor Award for "Best Book of the Year" in 2014 by the American Political Science Association.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to kevorkian.center@nyu.edu by January 19, 2021. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. A captioned version of this presentation will also be made available within a month to our Youtube page.

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