Offers a critical examination of Nigeria’s counter-terrorism policy as a political activity of identity construction.
This book critically engages with Nigeria's counter-terrorism strategy as a means of identity construction. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, Kodili Chukwuma analyses how the federal government articulates and justifies its counter-terrorism policy against specific ‘terrorist’ groups such as Boko Haram in order to construct Nigeria's identity. He argues that the designation of particular terrorist threats as a new form of terrorism in Nigeria – and beyond – enables state counter-terrorism interventions. Revealing the complexities of Nigeria's counter-terrorist strategy, this book sheds new light on critical terrorism and critical security studies in a key postcolonial context.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Nigerias Counter-Terrorism Strategy
1. Theorising Counter-Terrorism: Social Construction, Identity, and
Postcoloniality
2. Researching Counter-Terrorism: State Archives and Discourse Analysis
3. Constructing the Threat of Terrorism: New terrorism in Nigeria
4. Constructing the Nigerian Self: Inclusive, Democratic and Progressive
5. Constructing the Terrorist Other: Religious Fundamentalist, Opportunists,
and Foreign Terrorists
Conclusion: Counter-terrorism and Postcolonialism
Appendix
Bibliography
Kodili Chukwuma is Assistant Professor in International Security in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University
