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Julian Go
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Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d
Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com

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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 4d
Sign up below to hear @juliango.bsky.social giving the next Racial Justice lecture on January 21st, 2026. Prof. Go will be asking 'How and why have the police in liberal democracies become militarized?'. The answer, he will argue, is to be found in imperialism past and present.
Racial Justice Lecture: Policing Race
Professor Julian Go delivers the second University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 4d
We at 3CT are part of this multiyear project led by Judith Butler & others on authoritarianism. A series of events is planned starting with our event at the University of Chicago: “Authoritarian Imaginaries.” Everyone is welcome to attend. Follow the link.

ccct.uchicago.edu/events/power...
Power and Personality in Contemporary Capitalism
The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) is an interdisciplinary space for sustained, comparative discussion of social and political processes in the contemporary world. 3CT is a part of Divis...
ccct.uchicago.edu

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 11d
How and why did police in liberal democracies become militarized? Drawing on colonial history, our video of the week shows how methods honed during empire were imported into domestic policing through an “imperial boomerang.”

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Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social · 11d
Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...
It’s all ‘Mesearch’ - DRB
Imperial policing, extreme force and the supposed perils of ‘mesearch’
drb.ie

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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social · 13d
Why are today’s police forces so militarized, and what does empire have to do with it?

Sociologist @juliango.bsky.social (University of Chicago) explored this in his AISSR Lecture on policing, imperialism & racialization

🎥 Full lecture & aftertalk with Rivke Jaffe ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXtO...

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 18d
Please consider submitting papers to our Network on “Postcolonialism and the Legacies of Empire” for the Annual Meeting of @sasemeeting.bsky.social, to be held in Bourdeaux, France, in July 2026. Deadline: December 12. sase.org/events/2026-.... Specify you are submitting to our Network
2026 Bordeaux - SASE
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Oct 11
Amsterdam this Friday. On colonial fascism coming home.
aissr.uva.nl/content/even...
Militarized Policing and the Imperial Boomerang in the US and Britain - AISSR
Join the first AISSR lecture of the 2025-2026 series, that will be kicked off by professor of Sociology Julian Go (University of Chicago), exploring social dynamics, structures and the impact of empir...
aissr.uva.nl

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Louise Nelson @llnelson919.bsky.social · Oct 3
I will say this
ICE is asking for retaliation
The ppl of Chicago will not sit back in silence
A civil war is what #45 wants
To declare martial law
To stop future elections so we can't vote their asses out
I hope the ppl see this for what it is

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Oct 3
I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · Sep 23
Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social · Sep 22
🚨 AISSR Lecture Series kick-off! 𝟭𝟳 𝗢𝗰𝘁 | 𝟭𝟰:𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬

With @juliango.bsky.social on how imperialism & colonialism shaped today’s militarized policing in the US & UK. Aftertalk with Rivke Jaffe (Urban Geograhpy)

Open to students, researchers & the public

Register here: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...
Militarized Policing and the Imperial Boomerang in the US and Britain - AISSR
Join the first AISSR lecture of the 2025-2026 series, that will be kicked off by professor of Sociology Julian Go (University of Chicago), exploring social dynamics, structures and the impact of empir...
aissr.uva.nl

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Sep 15
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
www.texastribune.org

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 15
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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