Join us for a seminar organised by the Centre for the Study of Democracy, with speaker Dr Akin Oyawale.
Seminar title
(Counter-)Terrorism and (Counter-)Radicalisation in the Global South: A Critical Analysis
Seminar location
Westminster Forum, Fifth Floor
32–38 Wells Street
London W1T 3UW
Seminar speaker
Dr Akin Oyawale
Dr Akin Oyawale is an Assistant Professor in International Security and course director of the MA in International Relations at the University of Warwick. Dr Oyawale’s research focuses on a critical interrogation of International Relations theory more broadly, including its often unacknowledged raced and gendered dimensions and engaging with concrete experiences and practices of (in)security within critical security studies. He currently investigates terrorism, counterterrorism, radicalization, and extremism mainly from a 'bottom-up' perspective (vernacular security, feminist, everyday, postcolonial, etc) and broader aspects of international security. Dr Oyawale’s ongoing monograph project examines how Boko Haram and state counterterrorism have interacted to impact the (in)security of citizens in Northeast Nigeria.
Seminar organiser
Centre for the Study of Democracy
The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), established in 1989, is based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster. At the Centre, academics working in politics and international relations undertake socially engaged, methodologically diverse and often interdisciplinary research that addresses a range of critical political challenges concerning democracy worldwide.
CSD has a longstanding international reputation for research excellence through a programme of publications, events and collaborations with academics, practitioners, policymakers, and activists. Research in Politics and International Studies at CSD was ranked 4th highest in the UK for impact in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
The Centre has established numerous collaborations with scholars and universities around the world and has hosted encounters with public intellectuals, including Luc Boltanski, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Bruno Latour, Richard Rorty, Quentin Skinner, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Charles Taylor, James Tully, and Michael Walzer. The CR Parekh lecture, instituted by Lord Bhikhu Parekh, has included lectures by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Arundhati Roy, and Ashis Nandy.
CSD recognises that responding to contemporary social and political challenges requires engagement beyond the academy, so it actively welcomes dialogue and collaboration with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and activists worldwide. Professor Nitasha Kaul directs the Centre.
