Securitisation and spaces of terrorism in Kenya’s National Police Service counterterrorism discourse

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Oscar Gakuo MwangiCatherine Waithera Mwangia Centre for Conflict Management, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwandab Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, Pwani University, Kilifi, KenyaOscar Gakuo Mwangi is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Conflict Management, College of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Rwanda. His research interests and publications are in the areas of governance, conflict, and security in eastern and southern Africa, with a focus on state fragility, democratisation, radicalisation, counterterrorism, envionmental security and human security. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences. Pwani University, Kenya and has also taught at the National University of Lesotho and University of Nairobi.Catherine Waithera Mwangi holds a PhD in Literature in English from the National University of Lesotho, and MA in Communication from Daystar University and a BA in English and History from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Kenya. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature at Pwani University, Kenya. Her research interests include political rhetoric, discourse and identity, rhetoric theory, social constructivism, Critical Discourse Analysis, sociology of literature and African American literature.

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