Terrorist organization proscription as counterinsurgency in the Kurdish conflict

Proscription—the designation of non-state actors as terrorist organizations—operates as one technique of counterterrorism listing, whereby individuals and populations associated with armed non-state actors are targeted for disruption, stigmatisation, and prosecution. This article examines the effect...

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Autor principal: Sentas, Vicki (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
En: Terrorism and political violence
Año: 2018, Volumen: 30, Número: 2, Páginas: 298-317
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
Volltext (Publisher)
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Sumario:Proscription—the designation of non-state actors as terrorist organizations—operates as one technique of counterterrorism listing, whereby individuals and populations associated with armed non-state actors are targeted for disruption, stigmatisation, and prosecution. This article examines the effects of the globalised proscription of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the Kurdish conflict as a mode of counterinsurgency warfare. It argues that calling proscription a counterinsurgency strategy better connects its preemptive functions and objects with its deleterious effects on targeted populations. Moreover, this article argues that the transnational organization of the ban of the PKK casts light on how proscription extends and deepens colonial practices of counterinsurgency.
Notas:Gesehen am 21.11.2023
Published online: 28 Feb 2018
ISSN:1556-1836
DOI:10.1080/09546553.2018.1432215