Rethinking Empire & Globalization: Security and Resistance in the Late-Nineteenth Century
The late-nineteenth century was a moment of extremes: interconnection and prosperity, atomization and instability. This talk will explore the making of a global security framework through which the British empire attempted to surveil and contain what it saw as threats to its legitimacy, namely nationalist movements and anticolonial groups. Recent scholarship has revealed many ways groups of this type collaborated, shared ideas and resources, and built their own networks of resistance in a rapidly-globalizing world. This talk will focus on the way one such connection—that between Fenian Irish nationalists and Indian anticolonial activists—shared an unlikely geopolitical nexus: North America. These forces of security and resistance mutually constructed one another, in this crucial moment, to produce the shocks of the twentieth century and many of the key aspects of the contemporary globalized world, from ideas of security to discourses of knowledge and power.
All welcome- this event is free but booking is required.
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