I’ll soon be giving my last series of lectures as University of Cambridge Leverhulme Visiting Professor. @camsociology.bsky.social This is one of them: www.lse.ac.uk/events/police

Join the Catalysts for Decolonisation Research Lab for their upcoming events The annual lecture on 1 June will be given by Julian Go (Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago) Find out more and register at https://bit.ly/4tKDHPJ

Looking forward to speaking in London next week on why liberal democracies create militarized police readied for authoritarian rule (spoiler alert: the answer is not about whether you have liberal or right wing leaders but rather is about histories of colonialism).

See you in Copenhagen this week. www.sociology.ku.dk/about/calend...

My latest article, “The Theorist Ignored: Hubert Harrison and the Birth of Racial Capitalism,” uncovers the thinking of Hubert Harrison around questions of race and capital, hinting that his ideas may have anticipated those of W.E.B. DuBois’ later work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If the American Sociological Association wants to stay out of politics and only stand up for university research, then perhaps it should at least be bothered that all 19 universities in Gaza have been decimated. Universities. Bombed. All of them.

I just don't see how shutting ppl out and NOT allowing votes on issues members care abt is constructive here (no matter what the issue in question is)

“I vote to not let people vote” @soc4pal.bsky.social scatter.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/a...

Mary Romero, President of the ASA for its 110th session in 2019, when her theme was “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World” has announced she is boycotting this year's meeting in reaction to ASA leadership's decision. With her permission we share the full text of her letter here.

spineless & unprofessional stance by @asanews.bsky.social. There was a vote last year on a genocide statement & now the ASA is trying to delegitimate it. Reminds me of other so-called leaders trying to delegitimate elections & rewrite history.

Read about the five best books for understanding Trump's imperialism (and yes I not too humbly note that my 2011 book Patterns of Empire is listed): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I spoke to @juliango.bsky.social about the imperial boomerang and how US war tactics abroad are being employed at home by ICE "America’s cities are treated as colonial zones of conquest and imperial borderlands because that’s all ICE knows. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

In today's La Presse (Montreal)

Brilliant talk by @juliango.bsky.social To sum, those atrocities committed in faraway lands always come back home. www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi...

I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. It’s great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.

From 2014. Longstanding tactic. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

No doubt about it: Trump's new imperialism re Venezuela & its unabashed discourse of aggression is exactly what desperate empires do as they fall, and it is exactly what has led to revived imperialism and world war in the past. It's all so predictable & and also so dangerous 1/7

One of the pathetic things about Trump's new imperialism is that it isn't even original. When Reagan invaded Grenada in 83 the admin boasted it meant America was back & had gotten over its "Vietnam syndrome." But this was an expression of weakness not strength 1/6 x.com/TrumpWarRoom...

Do those folks critical of dems and say Dems are the same as Trump actually believe that Harris would have also sent in the US military to Venezuela to capture Maduro? She might have used other means but this blatant empire-ing is surely more of a Trump/Repub thing.

Falling empires do not behave well. #trump

“For Fanon, anticolonial violence was never a celebration of bloodshed…It was a diagnostic category, a way of naming the fact that colonial domination had already made violence the organising principle of everyday life.” hate that we have to keep clarifying this to dolts roape.net/2025/12/21/f...

Wrote a thing on racial capitalism in the French journal Marronnages. Some commentators - Malcolm Ferdinand, Diamond Ashiagbor - commented. Then I wrote a comment on their comment. marronnages.org/index.php/re...

Reminder that 12/16 is the deadline to submit to @sasemeeting.bsky.social in Bordeaux 2026. Be sure to submit to our Network on Postcolonialism and Legacies of Empire: sase.org/networks/u-p...

In Social Science History 49(1), “Vision and method in global historical sociology” by Julian Go and George Lawson has received significant attention. Check out the article: shorturl.at/ztego #history #sociology #Haiti #France #transboundary

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.

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...

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...

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

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. aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

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

Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.

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.

🚨 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...

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...

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."

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

I'll be presenting some of my latest thinking on racial capitalism Monday.

we organized this conference to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of 3CT, keynote by Judith Butler. Also includes my colleagues and friends at 3CT & UC like Dipesh Chakrabarty, Gabe Winant, Adom Getachew and Jodi Byrd. If you’re in Chicago do come over. ccct.uchicago.edu/events/theor...

Immanuel Wallerstein 3rd Open Lecture Race, Capital, Critique: For a Theory of Racial Capitalism Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social (University of Chicago) 28th April, 3:30pm BST The event will be streamed on the following YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/facultadde... #SocialTheory #Sociology