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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Dr Lou Pingeot.\n\nAbstract:  A vast swath of 
 the social sciences continues to understand colonialism as something “done
 ” by metropolitan centres to colonies. However\, thinkers as diverse as Ha
 nnah Arendt\, Aimé Césaire\, and Michel Foucault have argued that the viol
 ent strategies of population management and control deployed in the coloni
 es could have a feedback effect on the metropoles\, a process sometimes de
 scribed as the “colonial boomerang”. This insight is confirmed by a growin
 g interdisciplinary literature that demonstrates how colonialism had a dee
 p and enduring impact on metropolitan states and societies. State formatio
 n in the metropoles and state formation in the colonies were intimately in
 tertwined\, not through unilateral diffusion of institutions from the metr
 opoles to the colonies\, but through recursive circulation of people\, dis
 courses\, and practices between these two contexts. This was particularly 
 true when it came to the creation of the state security apparatus\, as pol
 ice forces emerged in metropoles and colonies not on parallel tracks\, but
  through a constant back and forth. Co-constitution\, not diffusion\, was 
 the mechanism that underpinned the relation between metropoles and colonie
 s. This talk takes stock of this developing scholarship to reflect on what
  the colonial boomerang can tell us about our contemporary postcolonial wo
 rld. I argue that the colonial boomerang provides a fruitful lens to under
 stand global policing. In particular\, I show how the colonial boomerang h
 elps shed light on UN-led peace operations\, one of the largest global pol
 ice-military deployments today. While much of the literature on peace oper
 ations is interested in their success or failure\, I propose to focus on h
 ow they allow people and ideas to circulate transnationally\, thus acting 
 as a point of cross-fertilization for the creation and transmission of pol
 icing discourses and practices globally. In other words\, peacekeeping is 
 not just something that is “done” to societies where intervention takes pl
 ace. Empirically\, I focus on UN intervention in Haiti\, particularly the 
 UN stabilization mission MINUSTAH (2004-2017).\n
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LOCATION:Room 160\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Present lives of the colonial boomerang:  the imperial entanglement
 s of global policing\, then and now
URL:/isid/channels/event/present-lives-colonial-boomer
 ang-imperial-entanglements-global-policing-then-and-now-353176
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