Temitope B Oriola
Biographic Data
| ID | 72267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Temitope B Oriola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Temitope B |
| FAMILY NAME | Oriola |
| SIGNATURE | ORIOLA T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8780-8445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Farewell from Outgoing Editors
In Memoriam: Professor Russell C. Smandych
Rethinking Approaches to Violent Extremism
Media Reform and Prospects for Peace and Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Nigeria: A Critical Appraisal of International and African Research on Media and Peacebuilding
This paper offers a critical assessment of the role that the media, and in particular peace and conflict-sensitive journalism, can play in peacebuilding in African countries with a primary focus on the history and roles of the media in Nigeria. The theoretical lenses offered by post-colonial and southern criminologies, along with emancipatory peace, global, and human rights journalism are deployed to engage with the prospects and challenges for p…
The exploitation of Nigeria’s Chibok girls and the creation of a social problem industry
Scholarship on the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement mainly focuses on its success in generating global attention to the 2014 kidnapping of Nigeria’s Chibok girls. This paper focuses on an unintended consequence of the movement—the establishment of a social problem industry around the Chibok girls and their community. The paper draws on a dataset with over 160 interviewees and focus group discussion (FGD) participants, including 42 #BBOG activi…
Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian-Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis
This study interrogates the experiences of Nigerian troops in the war against Boko Haram. The paper's contribution is bi-dimensional. First, it adds to the empirical literature on Boko Haram by analyzing the perspectives of rank-and-file troops. The study finds 10 forms of corruption affecting troops. These have contributed to the inability to defeat Boko Haram. Second, the paper adds to theoretical scholarship on civil-military relations and per…
Peace-Making, Military Integration, Banditry, and Weaponization of the Covid-19 Pandemic by Extremist Groups
Policing with a public health lens – Moving towards an understanding of crime as a public health issue
Policing organizations are currently experiencing more pressure than ever to address systemic racism and police brutality. Advocates and academics have suggested a range of changes, such as defunding the police, moving towards more body-worn cameras, ensuring higher educational levels of new recruits, implicit bias training, and so on. Our article draws attention and advocates for a different avenue: moving our understanding of crime towards a pu…
Fatal officer involved shootings following the use of Taser conducted energy weapons
This study investigates the risks and causes of fatal officer involved shootings (OIS) following ineffective applications of TASER conducted energy weapons (CEWs). Content analysis of open-source records resulted in quantitative and qualitative characteristics and conditions associated with the ineffective application of CEWs resulting in fatal OIS. Research and field-use data indicate that CEWs were ineffective in as many as 47% of applications.…
Witness Protection, Nile Politics, Shīʿīsm and the Problematique of Borders
Instability, Social Capital and the Air Force: Burkina Faso, the Two Sudans and Nigeria in Focus
Vaccine nationalism, violent extremist problematique and state management of combat-related deaths
Boko Haram's Terrorist Campaign in Nigeria: Contexts, Dimensions and Emerging Trajectories
For Ian Taylor (1969-2021)
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ian Christopher Taylor, co-editor of African Security, who passed away on 22 February 2021. Ian was an astonishingly accomplished and highly regar
Homegrown Solutions to Regional Insecurity Complexes in Africa
This issue of African Security covers some of the most consequential issues faced by states across the African continent. The first paper “Rejecting African Solutions to African Problems: The Afric
Conflict Networks, Terrorist Recruitment, Maritime Security and Non-State Armed Group Involvement in Counter-terrorism Strategies
Framing and movement outcomes: The #BringBackOurGirls movement
This paper is concerned with two questions: What are the master frames of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement? Why did the #BBOG attract significant global attention but achieve only moderate success in its goal – the release of all the school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok in April 2014? The paper draws on primary and secondary data to argue that the international attention generated by #BBOG framing had historically specific resona…
Boko Haram s Terrorist Campaign in Nigeria
Nigerian Soldiers On The War Against Boko Haram
This study explores two main questions: What are the experiences of soldiers who have fought against Boko Haram? What can these experiences teach us about the seeming incapacity of the Nigerian military to defeat Boko Haram? Six major themes are explored. These are perspectives on the mission, morale of troops, military equipment and weapons, suicide and murder–suicide among troops, intelligence leaks, and relationships of troops with the Civilia…
The African Peace and Security Architecture, Non-science of Electoral Prophetism, Farmer-herder Conflicts, and Ungoverned Spaces
This issue of African Security begins with John J. Hogan’s observations and analysis of the negotiation that resulted in the establishment of one of the central pillars of the African Union. After
Covid-19, George Floyd and Human Security
Our beleaguered world was thrown into a major turmoil in December 2019 when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-19 or COVID-19) was discovered in Wuhan, China and q
Regional Security Governance in Africa
This issue of African Security takes readers across the African continent – Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, and the Sudano-Sahelian region. The four articles in the issue focus on topics that are co
Counterinsurgency, Coup-Avoidance and Military Expenditure in Africa
This issue of African Security contains three articles on different but interconnected themes. In the lead article, Brandon Brooks interrogates the US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manu
Police Use of Force against Minorities and Academic Chatter
Beyond poverty fixation: Interrogating the experiences of internally displaced persons in Nigeria
This paper draws on fieldwork at three camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northeast Nigeria. It interrogates the pre-displacement experiences of participants, their transition to and experiences of internal displacement, vignettes of life at IDP camps, their relationship with host communities, the non-universality of experiences of sexual and gender-based violence among female IDPs (despite the particularities of experiences of wome…
Unwilling Cocoons”: Boko Haram's War Against Women
The kidnapping of 276 girls at Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014 has brought into international prominence the organization Jama'atu Ahlis Suna Lidda'awati Wal Jihad or Boko Haram. This incident heralded a new trajectory in Boko Haram's tactics and strategies. This article focuses on Boko Haram's strategic deployment of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women. The gendered performativity of B…
Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian-Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis
This study interrogates the experiences of Nigerian troops in the war against Boko Haram. The paper's contribution is bi-dimensional. First, it adds to the empirical literature on Boko Haram by analyzing the perspectives of rank-and-file troops. The study finds 10 forms of corruption affecting troops. These have contributed to the inability to defeat Boko Haram. Second, the paper adds to theoretical scholarship on civil-military relations and per…
The Ambivalent Insider/Outsider Status of Academic 'Homecomers: Observations on Identity and Field Research in the Nigerian Delta
This research note draws attention to the play of a researcher's identity during a summer's worth of research conducted in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Focus is particularly directed at the position of 'academic homecomers', and the various ways in which different forms of their identity and 'insiderness' can structure research
Framing and movement outcomes: The #BringBackOurGirls movement
This paper is concerned with two questions: What are the master frames of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement? Why did the #BBOG attract significant global attention but achieve only moderate success in its goal – the release of all the school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok in April 2014? The paper draws on primary and secondary data to argue that the international attention generated by #BBOG framing had historically specific resona…
Ideational Dimensions of the Boko Haram Phenomenon
This article draws on frame theory to explore the ideational dimensions of the Boko Haram phenomenon. Speech acts by Boko Haram's leaders are analyzed to interrogate how the organization conducts its three core framing tasks. The article argues that Boko Haram deploys three major master frames. These are the return to true Islam frame, the injustice frame, and the war against the infidel frame. Boko Haram's framing strategies draw on the social c…
Car Bombing “With Due Respect”: The Niger Delta Insurgency and the Idea Called Mend
This study contributes to the scholarly understanding of the insurgency in the oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a loose coalition of insurgent groups responsible for many spectacular cases of kidnapping and bombing, is interrogated within the new wars theoretical prism. The article draws on interview and focus group data garnered from six categories of actors, including forty-two ex-in…
Nigerian Soldiers On The War Against Boko Haram
This study explores two main questions: What are the experiences of soldiers who have fought against Boko Haram? What can these experiences teach us about the seeming incapacity of the Nigerian military to defeat Boko Haram? Six major themes are explored. These are perspectives on the mission, morale of troops, military equipment and weapons, suicide and murder–suicide among troops, intelligence leaks, and relationships of troops with the Civilia…
I acted like a man’: Exploring female ex-insurgents’ narratives on Nigeria’s oil insurgency
This paper explores how a small sample of female ex-insurgents make sense of their engagement in Nigeria’s oil insurgency. The study is informed by three key questions: How did Delta women join the insurgency? Why did they join? How do they frame their participation? The paper analyses the prevalence of a masculinising rhetoric among participants. The majority of participants view their roles in the insurgency as antithetical to their gender. The…
Beyond poverty fixation: Interrogating the experiences of internally displaced persons in Nigeria
This paper draws on fieldwork at three camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northeast Nigeria. It interrogates the pre-displacement experiences of participants, their transition to and experiences of internal displacement, vignettes of life at IDP camps, their relationship with host communities, the non-universality of experiences of sexual and gender-based violence among female IDPs (despite the particularities of experiences of wome…
Criminogenic patterns in the management of Boko Haram’s human displacement situation
This article interrogates the management of the internal displacement caused by the activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The study utilizes qualitative methods to explicate the lived realities of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at three IDP camps. It accentuates the invention of criminogenic patterns that have fostered several state crimes in the management of the displacement situation. A series of cyclical patterns is highlighted: these pat…
Counter-terrorism and alien justice: The case of security certificates in Canada
This article examines the security certificate process that has been in effect in Canada since 1978 and the 2008 amendment (Bill C-3) of the Immigration and Refugees Protection Act. It highlights how democratic means can be used to subvert meaningful policy changes, and underscores the antinomy inherent in a nation-state's zeal to protect its citizens and appeals by a group of Arab Muslim men held under security certificates for suspected terrori…
New Modes of Becoming in Transcultural Glocal Spaces: Second-Generation Youth in Calgary, Winnipeg, and Toronto
Second generation youth are currently the focus of much research and policy attention with respect to their integration, which is not yet well understood. Based on graphic and narrative data recently collected in three cities, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Toronto, we analyse second generation youth's patterns in glocal spaces where transcultural modes of belonging are created and lived. Our analysis focuses on attachments to locality and a continuum of…
Media Reform and Prospects for Peace and Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Nigeria: A Critical Appraisal of International and African Research on Media and Peacebuilding
This paper offers a critical assessment of the role that the media, and in particular peace and conflict-sensitive journalism, can play in peacebuilding in African countries with a primary focus on the history and roles of the media in Nigeria. The theoretical lenses offered by post-colonial and southern criminologies, along with emancipatory peace, global, and human rights journalism are deployed to engage with the prospects and challenges for p…
Homegrown Solutions to Regional Insecurity Complexes in Africa
This issue of African Security covers some of the most consequential issues faced by states across the African continent. The first paper “Rejecting African Solutions to African Problems: The Afric
The African Peace and Security Architecture, Non-science of Electoral Prophetism, Farmer-herder Conflicts, and Ungoverned Spaces
This issue of African Security begins with John J. Hogan’s observations and analysis of the negotiation that resulted in the establishment of one of the central pillars of the African Union. After
Counterinsurgency, Coup-Avoidance and Military Expenditure in Africa
This issue of African Security contains three articles on different but interconnected themes. In the lead article, Brandon Brooks interrogates the US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manu
The Delta Creeks, Women's Engagement and Nigeria's Oil Insurgency
The on-going insurgency in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria continues to have serious consequences for oil workers, corporations and the global oil market. In spite of the growing interest in arguably the greatest existential threat to the Nigerian state since the Civil War of 1967–70, scant scholarly attention has been paid to the Delta creeks and the fundamental roles performed by women in the insurgency. This paper interrogates the space repr…
They should have just taken a gun and shot my son: Taser deployment and the downtrodden in Canada
This study interrogates ostensible differential deployment of an increasingly ubiquitous tool of policing in Canada – the Taser. Taser-related deaths are problematized as evidence of a teething new urban terrorism essentially against the downtrodden. The paper argues that a combination of intersecting factors: gender, low socio-economic status, mental illness, drug use, and ethnicity are fundamental to who gets tased by the police. The paper inve…
New Modes of Becoming in Transcultural Glocal Spaces: Second-Generation Youth in Calgary, Winnipeg, and Toronto
Second generation youth are currently the focus of much research and policy attention with respect to their integration, which is not yet well understood. Based on graphic and narrative data recently collected in three cities, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Toronto, we analyse second generation youth's patterns in glocal spaces where transcultural modes of belonging are created and lived. Our analysis focuses on attachments to locality and a continuum of…
Counter-terrorism and alien justice: The case of security certificates in Canada
This article examines the security certificate process that has been in effect in Canada since 1978 and the 2008 amendment (Bill C-3) of the Immigration and Refugees Protection Act. It highlights how democratic means can be used to subvert meaningful policy changes, and underscores the antinomy inherent in a nation-state's zeal to protect its citizens and appeals by a group of Arab Muslim men held under security certificates for suspected terrori…
Haunted: The Symbolism of the Noose
For an African‐American with a cursory sense of history, there is no misconstruing what the noose denotes. The resurgence, resuscitation and re‐emergence of and the élan with which the avatar called the noose is being re‐presented 142 years after the last set of slaves were freed in the US and 200 years after the abolition of slavery in the UK can be surmised thus: this erstwhile property now has a voice. Utilizing the Levinasian concepts of ‘jus…
Colonialism and Contemporary African Migration: A Phenomenological Approach
Scholars of international migration have paid scant attention to the phenomenon of bifurcated social identity of African migrants and their efforts to reinvent or re- and deconstruct a certain image of self in their everyday life. This article aims to offer a more nuanced approach to studying the phenomenon of Africans’ involvement in voluntary migration to the West. Drawing on Goffman’s idea of “dramaturgy,” the article enunciates ways that Afri…
The Delta Creeks, Women's Engagement and Nigeria's Oil Insurgency
The on-going insurgency in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria continues to have serious consequences for oil workers, corporations and the global oil market. In spite of the growing interest in arguably the greatest existential threat to the Nigerian state since the Civil War of 1967–70, scant scholarly attention has been paid to the Delta creeks and the fundamental roles performed by women in the insurgency. This paper interrogates the space repr…
They should have just taken a gun and shot my son: Taser deployment and the downtrodden in Canada
This study interrogates ostensible differential deployment of an increasingly ubiquitous tool of policing in Canada – the Taser. Taser-related deaths are problematized as evidence of a teething new urban terrorism essentially against the downtrodden. The paper argues that a combination of intersecting factors: gender, low socio-economic status, mental illness, drug use, and ethnicity are fundamental to who gets tased by the police. The paper inve…
The Ambivalent Insider/Outsider Status of Academic 'Homecomers: Observations on Identity and Field Research in the Nigerian Delta
This research note draws attention to the play of a researcher's identity during a summer's worth of research conducted in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Focus is particularly directed at the position of 'academic homecomers', and the various ways in which different forms of their identity and 'insiderness' can structure research
Car Bombing “With Due Respect”: The Niger Delta Insurgency and the Idea Called Mend
This study contributes to the scholarly understanding of the insurgency in the oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a loose coalition of insurgent groups responsible for many spectacular cases of kidnapping and bombing, is interrogated within the new wars theoretical prism. The article draws on interview and focus group data garnered from six categories of actors, including forty-two ex-in…
Unwilling Cocoons”: Boko Haram's War Against Women
The kidnapping of 276 girls at Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014 has brought into international prominence the organization Jama'atu Ahlis Suna Lidda'awati Wal Jihad or Boko Haram. This incident heralded a new trajectory in Boko Haram's tactics and strategies. This article focuses on Boko Haram's strategic deployment of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women. The gendered performativity of B…
I acted like a man’: Exploring female ex-insurgents’ narratives on Nigeria’s oil insurgency
This paper explores how a small sample of female ex-insurgents make sense of their engagement in Nigeria’s oil insurgency. The study is informed by three key questions: How did Delta women join the insurgency? Why did they join? How do they frame their participation? The paper analyses the prevalence of a masculinising rhetoric among participants. The majority of participants view their roles in the insurgency as antithetical to their gender. The…
Ideational Dimensions of the Boko Haram Phenomenon
This article draws on frame theory to explore the ideational dimensions of the Boko Haram phenomenon. Speech acts by Boko Haram's leaders are analyzed to interrogate how the organization conducts its three core framing tasks. The article argues that Boko Haram deploys three major master frames. These are the return to true Islam frame, the injustice frame, and the war against the infidel frame. Boko Haram's framing strategies draw on the social c…
In Memoriam: James J. Hentz (1955–2018)
Criminogenic patterns in the management of Boko Haram’s human displacement situation
This article interrogates the management of the internal displacement caused by the activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The study utilizes qualitative methods to explicate the lived realities of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at three IDP camps. It accentuates the invention of criminogenic patterns that have fostered several state crimes in the management of the displacement situation. A series of cyclical patterns is highlighted: these pat…
In Memoriam — Professor Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019)
News of the tragic death of Professor Pius Adesanmi in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash on 10 March 2019 alongside all the 156 passengers and crew (representing some 35 nations) sent shock w
Combating Violent Extremism in Africa: Terrorism and Piracy
Terrorism and piratical acts continue to be major security challenges in Africa. This combined issue of African Security (volume 12, issues 3/4) brings a critical focus on attempts to combat these
On the Precipice: Nigeria and a Budding Shi’ite Insurgency
This issue begins with a conceptual article written by the late James Hentz. Colonel Hentz, the founding editor of African Security journal, advances a novel approach to understanding the nature of
The African Peace and Security Architecture, Non-science of Electoral Prophetism, Farmer-herder Conflicts, and Ungoverned Spaces
This issue of African Security begins with John J. Hogan’s observations and analysis of the negotiation that resulted in the establishment of one of the central pillars of the African Union. After
Covid-19, George Floyd and Human Security
Our beleaguered world was thrown into a major turmoil in December 2019 when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-19 or COVID-19) was discovered in Wuhan, China and q
Regional Security Governance in Africa
This issue of African Security takes readers across the African continent – Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, and the Sudano-Sahelian region. The four articles in the issue focus on topics that are co
Counterinsurgency, Coup-Avoidance and Military Expenditure in Africa
This issue of African Security contains three articles on different but interconnected themes. In the lead article, Brandon Brooks interrogates the US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manu
Police Use of Force against Minorities and Academic Chatter
Beyond poverty fixation: Interrogating the experiences of internally displaced persons in Nigeria
This paper draws on fieldwork at three camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northeast Nigeria. It interrogates the pre-displacement experiences of participants, their transition to and experiences of internal displacement, vignettes of life at IDP camps, their relationship with host communities, the non-universality of experiences of sexual and gender-based violence among female IDPs (despite the particularities of experiences of wome…
Boko Haram's Terrorist Campaign in Nigeria: Contexts, Dimensions and Emerging Trajectories
For Ian Taylor (1969-2021)
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ian Christopher Taylor, co-editor of African Security, who passed away on 22 February 2021. Ian was an astonishingly accomplished and highly regar
Homegrown Solutions to Regional Insecurity Complexes in Africa
This issue of African Security covers some of the most consequential issues faced by states across the African continent. The first paper “Rejecting African Solutions to African Problems: The Afric
Political science (38 works) · Sociology (34 works) · Law (33 works) · Law (24 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Terrorism (12 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (11 works) · Insurgency (10 works)