{"id":1893,"date":"2022-03-05T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/tubmandev\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1893"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:26:31","slug":"temitope-oriola","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/profile\/temitope-oriola\/","title":{"rendered":"Temitope Oriola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Temitope Oriola is joint Editor-in-Chief of the <em>African Security<\/em> journal and associate professor at the University of Alberta. A recipient of the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal (first presented in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin), Oriola\u2019s book <em>Criminal Resistance? The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers<\/em> is one of a small number of book-length sociological investigations of political kidnapping in the English language. Professor Oriola\u2019s research focuses on policing and use of force by police, terrorism studies and resource-related conflict (involving tactics like political kidnappings). Publications from his research appear in leading scholarly journals, such as <em>Sociology<\/em> (the flagship journal of the British Sociological Association), the <em>British Journal of Criminology<\/em>, <em>African Affairs<\/em>, <em>African Security<\/em>, T<em>hird World Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Critical Studies on Terrorism<\/em>, <em>Review of African Political Economy<\/em>, and <em>Studies in Conflict and Terrorism<\/em>, among others. Dr Oriola regularly contributes to public scholarship through public talks, op-eds, media interviews and expert opinions. A decorated researcher and teacher, Professor Oriola is a two-time Carnegie fellow and the 2020 recipient of the Kathleen W. Klawe Prize for teaching excellence. He is past-president of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS).<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: Policing and use of force; terrorism studies; political kidnapping<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1082],"tags":[219,76,147,294,293,212,295,296],"class_list":["post-1893","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","category-member-associatefellow","tag-conflicts","tag-criminology","tag-economy","tag-policing-and-use-of-force","tag-political-kidnapping","tag-politics","tag-security","tag-terrorism-studies"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1082,"label":"Associate Fellow"}],"post_tag":[{"value":219,"label":"Conflicts"},{"value":76,"label":"Criminology"},{"value":147,"label":"economy"},{"value":294,"label":"Policing and use of force"},{"value":293,"label":"Political kidnapping"},{"value":212,"label":"Politics"},{"value":295,"label":"Security"},{"value":296,"label":"Terrorism studies"}]},"featured_image_src_large":[],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}