In this conversation, Prof. Laleh Khalili (Exeter; author of Time in the Shadows) and Prof. David Anderson (Future Rural Africa Project A02 Past Futures) discuss the traveling methods of colonial policing and punishment that circulated within the British empire and was transmitted across time and space to succeeding governments.
Video: Collective Punishment as Colonial Policing – A Conversation between David Anderson and Laleh Khalili
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