Urban security, counter-terrorism, homeland security, policing, security industries, policy mobilities, critical security studies, settler colonialism, ethnographic methods, India, Israel/Palestine

Urban security, counter-terrorism, homeland security, policing, security industries, policy mobilities, critical security studies, settler colonialism, ethnographic methods, India, Israel/Palestine

Dr. Rhys Machold teaches in the area of international relations. Taking an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, his empirical research focuses on issues of violence, security and policing within contemporary urban spaces. This work further engages with the political economies of security industries and security markets. He has held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsilie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, as a Guest Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen and as a Visiting Researcher at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His current research, which extends his doctoral work carried out in Israel/Palestine, India and the UK, explores how security knowledge moves geographically by examining transnational circuits of police training. It takes a multi-sited approach to analyse how forms of policy learning take place through embodied, experiential practices in, across, and between different countries. As part of this work, Dr. Machold has closely interrogated the concept of policing and security “laboratories” in understanding how certain policy experiences are constituted as exemplary cases or “models” worthy of emulation elsewhere. Theoretically, Dr. Machold’s research is influenced by post-structuralism, post-colonialism, settler colonialism, gender studies, assemblage theory and science and technology studies. It further draws on a range of critical methodological approaches including ethnography and mobile methods.