Proscribing Time

Proscription and Temporality in Terrorism Trials

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2236680
AutoresKodili Henry Chukwuma (0000-0003-2181-5009, Durham University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número1
Fecha de publicación2024-01-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olad027
OpenAlexW4391055858
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas42

This article explores the closely knit yet complex link between proscription and temporality through the examination of terrorism trials in Nigeria. Through the notion of proscribing time, this article demonstrates the ways in which proscription is enacted, imagined, and contested in light of important temporal effects. With a few exceptions, recent debates around proscription remain almost overwhelmingly focused on the banning of particular groups linked to terrorism, and on proscription power and its wider political and ethical ramifications. This 'actor-oriented' focus (proscribed/proscriber), I argue, reinforces certain theoretical and ontological claims recognizable in the dominant analysis of terrorism. Moreover, such a perspective is predominantly organized around a forward-oriented logic of security preemption, which does not fully reveal the complexity and broader consequences of proscription. Thus, drawing upon relevant insights about temporality, especially as discussed in critical security studies, critical legal studies, and beyond, this article demonstrates how time is proscribed (rather than terrorist groups) to render visible the complexity and ramifications of proscription. The article, as such, contributes theoretically to ongoing debates about proscription and temporality in critical security studies more broadly. It also, empirically, makes a worthwhile contribution to a relatively small, though important, scholarship on terrorism trials in Nigeria

Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Proscription · Scholarship · Sociology · Temporality · Terrorism · Global Security and Public Health · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence