Proscribing Time

Proscription and Temporality in Terrorism Trials

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2236680
AutoresKodili Henry Chukwuma (0000-0003-2181-5009, Durham University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume18
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2024-01-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olad027
OpenAlexW4391055858
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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