Rhys Machold
Biographic Data
| ID | 200508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhys Machold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhys |
| FAMILY NAME | Machold |
| SIGNATURE | MACHOLD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9842-392X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Pissing in the wind’
This commentary engages with Mikko Joronen's provocative and timely notion of ‘malevolent weathering' developed to grapple with the formative roles of pollution within the Zionist settler-colonial project unfolding across contemporary Palestine. It argues that while Joronen's efforts to centre this weathering process as the main event is welcome and productive, the article less well attuned to grappling with this weathering's contradictory spillo…
Democracy, diversity, and disavowal
This article explores India’s ‘long wars’ – the counter-insurgency campaigns the state imposed on recalcitrant populations and territories. Existing critical debates have focused on colonial and imperial counter-insurgency waged by developed Western states and empires. Yet these powers hardly command a monopoly on how these are fought, rationalised, or imagined. Indian counter-insurgency campaigns are a key case in point. The aftermath of British…
Refusing deterrence
In this article, we offer a conceptual provocation that seeks to reframe critical engagement with migration ‘deterrence’. While scholars have illustrated how deterrence policies and practices within migration governance do not necessarily work as advertised, they have rarely interrogated deterrence as such. Responding to this gap, we mobilize the method of critical juxtaposing to examine the historical and etymological origins of deterrence as a …
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance
Unsettling the Hamas taboo
India's counterinsurgency knowledge
Within recent critical debates about the geographies and circulations of counterinsurgency knowledge, scholars have focused primarily on dominant centres of power and authority in the global North. Building a framework drawn from critical geography, this article decentres these locations and actors by exploring the global production and circulation of counterinsurgency knowledge from the vantage point of Indian strategic thinkers. Focusing on the…
Beyond ambivalence
No abstract available
Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism
Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of …
Policing Reality
This article intervenes in discussions about the circulation of policing knowledge and the politics of expertise. As part of a broader conversation about transnational reconfigurations of state power, critical scholars have drawn attention to the influence of global policing 'models' and 'private' experts in shaping policy. They show how such figures and forms of knowhow symbolically enforce urban order and dispossess marginalized communities und…
Reconsidering the laboratory thesis
Militarising Mumbai? The ‘Politics’ of Response
This article focuses on how urban security has been governed in Mumbai in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks (26/11). The event was widely cited as a major turning point in the securitisation and militarisation of Indian cities. It also produced significant political upheaval, which in turn generated calls for a major institutional overhaul of the governmental architecture for handling terrorism. This article takes the political and poli…
Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance
This article calls for a greater emphasis on issues of politics and anti-politics within critical debates about transnational security governance in the metropolis. While scholars have documented the growing popularity of policy ‘models’ and ‘best practices’ in policing and urban security planning, we know little about what makes these schemes attractive to the officials who enroll in them. I take the government of Maharashtra’s decision to ‘lear…
Mobility and the Model
Israel's dominant position within the homeland security (HLS) and counterterrorism field is now quite widely acknowledged within academic literature and beyond. While existing accounts of Israel's HLS industry have made a number of critical contributions to understanding its rise, they fail to readily address how Israeli HLS approaches have come to be understood as mobile and universal strategies to be applied worldwide. They also negate the exte…
Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories
This article aims to reinvigorate analytical debates on conspiracy theories. It argues that definitional attempts to set conspiracy theories apart from other theories are flawed. Blinded by the "irrational" reputation of conspiracy theories and deluded by the workings of institutionalized power such approaches fail to recognize that there are no inherent differences between the two categories. We argue that assessments of conspiracy theories shou…
Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories
This article aims to reinvigorate analytical debates on conspiracy theories. It argues that definitional attempts to set conspiracy theories apart from other theories are flawed. Blinded by the "irrational" reputation of conspiracy theories and deluded by the workings of institutionalized power such approaches fail to recognize that there are no inherent differences between the two categories. We argue that assessments of conspiracy theories shou…
Reconsidering the laboratory thesis
Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism
Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of …
Beyond ambivalence
No abstract available
Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance
This article calls for a greater emphasis on issues of politics and anti-politics within critical debates about transnational security governance in the metropolis. While scholars have documented the growing popularity of policy ‘models’ and ‘best practices’ in policing and urban security planning, we know little about what makes these schemes attractive to the officials who enroll in them. I take the government of Maharashtra’s decision to ‘lear…
Mobility and the Model
Israel's dominant position within the homeland security (HLS) and counterterrorism field is now quite widely acknowledged within academic literature and beyond. While existing accounts of Israel's HLS industry have made a number of critical contributions to understanding its rise, they fail to readily address how Israeli HLS approaches have come to be understood as mobile and universal strategies to be applied worldwide. They also negate the exte…
Refusing deterrence
In this article, we offer a conceptual provocation that seeks to reframe critical engagement with migration ‘deterrence’. While scholars have illustrated how deterrence policies and practices within migration governance do not necessarily work as advertised, they have rarely interrogated deterrence as such. Responding to this gap, we mobilize the method of critical juxtaposing to examine the historical and etymological origins of deterrence as a …
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance
Militarising Mumbai? The ‘Politics’ of Response
This article focuses on how urban security has been governed in Mumbai in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks (26/11). The event was widely cited as a major turning point in the securitisation and militarisation of Indian cities. It also produced significant political upheaval, which in turn generated calls for a major institutional overhaul of the governmental architecture for handling terrorism. This article takes the political and poli…
Pissing in the wind’
This commentary engages with Mikko Joronen's provocative and timely notion of ‘malevolent weathering' developed to grapple with the formative roles of pollution within the Zionist settler-colonial project unfolding across contemporary Palestine. It argues that while Joronen's efforts to centre this weathering process as the main event is welcome and productive, the article less well attuned to grappling with this weathering's contradictory spillo…
India's counterinsurgency knowledge
Within recent critical debates about the geographies and circulations of counterinsurgency knowledge, scholars have focused primarily on dominant centres of power and authority in the global North. Building a framework drawn from critical geography, this article decentres these locations and actors by exploring the global production and circulation of counterinsurgency knowledge from the vantage point of Indian strategic thinkers. Focusing on the…
Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories
This article aims to reinvigorate analytical debates on conspiracy theories. It argues that definitional attempts to set conspiracy theories apart from other theories are flawed. Blinded by the "irrational" reputation of conspiracy theories and deluded by the workings of institutionalized power such approaches fail to recognize that there are no inherent differences between the two categories. We argue that assessments of conspiracy theories shou…
Mobility and the Model
Israel's dominant position within the homeland security (HLS) and counterterrorism field is now quite widely acknowledged within academic literature and beyond. While existing accounts of Israel's HLS industry have made a number of critical contributions to understanding its rise, they fail to readily address how Israeli HLS approaches have come to be understood as mobile and universal strategies to be applied worldwide. They also negate the exte…
Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance
This article calls for a greater emphasis on issues of politics and anti-politics within critical debates about transnational security governance in the metropolis. While scholars have documented the growing popularity of policy ‘models’ and ‘best practices’ in policing and urban security planning, we know little about what makes these schemes attractive to the officials who enroll in them. I take the government of Maharashtra’s decision to ‘lear…
Militarising Mumbai? The ‘Politics’ of Response
This article focuses on how urban security has been governed in Mumbai in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks (26/11). The event was widely cited as a major turning point in the securitisation and militarisation of Indian cities. It also produced significant political upheaval, which in turn generated calls for a major institutional overhaul of the governmental architecture for handling terrorism. This article takes the political and poli…
Reconsidering the laboratory thesis
Policing Reality
This article intervenes in discussions about the circulation of policing knowledge and the politics of expertise. As part of a broader conversation about transnational reconfigurations of state power, critical scholars have drawn attention to the influence of global policing 'models' and 'private' experts in shaping policy. They show how such figures and forms of knowhow symbolically enforce urban order and dispossess marginalized communities und…
Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism
Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of …
Beyond ambivalence
No abstract available
India's counterinsurgency knowledge
Within recent critical debates about the geographies and circulations of counterinsurgency knowledge, scholars have focused primarily on dominant centres of power and authority in the global North. Building a framework drawn from critical geography, this article decentres these locations and actors by exploring the global production and circulation of counterinsurgency knowledge from the vantage point of Indian strategic thinkers. Focusing on the…
Unsettling the Hamas taboo
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance
Pissing in the wind’
This commentary engages with Mikko Joronen's provocative and timely notion of ‘malevolent weathering' developed to grapple with the formative roles of pollution within the Zionist settler-colonial project unfolding across contemporary Palestine. It argues that while Joronen's efforts to centre this weathering process as the main event is welcome and productive, the article less well attuned to grappling with this weathering's contradictory spillo…
Democracy, diversity, and disavowal
This article explores India’s ‘long wars’ – the counter-insurgency campaigns the state imposed on recalcitrant populations and territories. Existing critical debates have focused on colonial and imperial counter-insurgency waged by developed Western states and empires. Yet these powers hardly command a monopoly on how these are fought, rationalised, or imagined. Indian counter-insurgency campaigns are a key case in point. The aftermath of British…
Refusing deterrence
In this article, we offer a conceptual provocation that seeks to reframe critical engagement with migration ‘deterrence’. While scholars have illustrated how deterrence policies and practices within migration governance do not necessarily work as advertised, they have rarely interrogated deterrence as such. Responding to this gap, we mobilize the method of critical juxtaposing to examine the historical and etymological origins of deterrence as a …
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