Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social
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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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.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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.
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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...
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
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
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...
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...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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...
ccct.uchicago.edu/events/power...
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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...
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...
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
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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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
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
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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.”
Feat. @juliango.bsky.social at @aissr.bsky.social
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Feat. @juliango.bsky.social at @aissr.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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.”
Feat. @juliango.bsky.social at @aissr.bsky.social
buff.ly/pFAv0pr
Feat. @juliango.bsky.social at @aissr.bsky.social
buff.ly/pFAv0pr
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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October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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
Amsterdam this Friday. On colonial fascism coming home.
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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
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Amsterdam this Friday. On colonial fascism coming home.
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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
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
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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
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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Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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🚨 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...
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
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🚨 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...
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...
More boomerang effect: Trump brings colonial fascism home, creating a new "specialized unit" in the NG: a national level SWAT unit under his direct command. Such units originate in America's early 20th century colonial wars & counterinsurgency campaigns
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
An Army National Guard veteran says Trump's specialized unit is 'quite dangerous'
Army National Guard veteran Christopher Purdy says President Trump's executive order to create a specialized D.C. National Guard unit is a workaround to use the military as a domestic police force.
www.npr.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
More boomerang effect: Trump brings colonial fascism home, creating a new "specialized unit" in the NG: a national level SWAT unit under his direct command. Such units originate in America's early 20th century colonial wars & counterinsurgency campaigns
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
And Chicago isn’t even in the top us cities in terms of violent crime rates.
And even if it were, such a deployment would still be an abuse of power.
And even if it were, such a deployment would still be an abuse of power.
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.”
— Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967.
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— Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967.
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Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
And Chicago isn’t even in the top us cities in terms of violent crime rates.
And even if it were, such a deployment would still be an abuse of power.
And even if it were, such a deployment would still be an abuse of power.
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ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.
I am not making this up.
I am not making this up.
August 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.
I am not making this up.
I am not making this up.
Don’t forget: “crime” by black and brown folks has long been the pretext for bringing the boomerang home, militarizing our streets, & deploying the tactics of colonial control on citizens.
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Don’t forget: “crime” by black and brown folks has long been the pretext for bringing the boomerang home, militarizing our streets, & deploying the tactics of colonial control on citizens.
AI is not inevitable. everyone is talking about it only cuz big tech invested billions and need to monetize it. It’s also why big tech turned on the dems and went for Trump: they hated Biden’s attempt to regulate it.
Follow the $. And policy.
Follow the $. And policy.
https://aoshearman.com/en/insights/ao…
August 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
AI is not inevitable. everyone is talking about it only cuz big tech invested billions and need to monetize it. It’s also why big tech turned on the dems and went for Trump: they hated Biden’s attempt to regulate it.
Follow the $. And policy.
Follow the $. And policy.
Just read this paper discussed in @chronicle.com reported by
@EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11
www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
@EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11
www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
These Scholarly Topics Are Hotly Debated. So Why Don’t Syllabi Reflect That?
A new working paper suggests that many students are given only one viewpoint to consider.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just read this paper discussed in @chronicle.com reported by
@EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11
www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
@EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11
www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
Of course Kirk doesn’t want sociology majors. He just wants laborers who he can hire to do labor for him and his rich friends and boss them around, not people trained to understand and call out wealth inequality or systems of control.
July 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Of course Kirk doesn’t want sociology majors. He just wants laborers who he can hire to do labor for him and his rich friends and boss them around, not people trained to understand and call out wealth inequality or systems of control.
1/6 When these finance-tech oligarchs whine about universities’ ‘leftist’ indoctrination, they are not really whining about lack of political diversity in universities. They are simply speaking from their own narrow provincial self-interest.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”
www.washingtonpost.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
1/6 When these finance-tech oligarchs whine about universities’ ‘leftist’ indoctrination, they are not really whining about lack of political diversity in universities. They are simply speaking from their own narrow provincial self-interest.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Far from ending US imperialism, Trump reenacts it, using US financial power to bully democratic regimes & install right wing dictators. Typical us imperialism
July 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Far from ending US imperialism, Trump reenacts it, using US financial power to bully democratic regimes & install right wing dictators. Typical us imperialism
Excited to read this brand new book on colonial surveillance in France by the impressive Vincent Bollenot! @vincentbollenot.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Excited to read this brand new book on colonial surveillance in France by the impressive Vincent Bollenot! @vincentbollenot.bsky.social
Short article in the French newspaper, Le Monde, about the special issue on racial capitalism in Marronages (founded by @silyanelarcher.bsky.social and others) featuring my article and other wonderful contributions.
April 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Short article in the French newspaper, Le Monde, about the special issue on racial capitalism in Marronages (founded by @silyanelarcher.bsky.social and others) featuring my article and other wonderful contributions.