BISA 2024 Conference

Theorising (counter)terrorism

06

6 Jun 2024, 16:45

1h 30m

Room 102, Library

Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Description

This panel brings together papers that engage with concepts, theories and methodologies we use to critically research and assess (counter)terrorism.

Subcontributions

• Continuity and change in the construction of Terrorism Expertise: Struggles for Epistemic Authority on the Islamic State Group
• Deconstructing terrorism as a contested term: A social constructionist thematic analysis of the Nigerian government use of terrorism in labelling groups as terrorist and legitimising their counterterrorism responses
• The New ‘New Terrorism’? Terrorism's temporalities and their resilience
• From ‘Political undesirable’ to ‘friendly agent’? Negotiating power dynamics in elite security interviews in critical security research in Nigeria
• Narrating the discipline of terrorism studies: Historiography, waves of rebel terror, and terrorism ‘for’ the state