Preaching to the converted: Parliament and the proscription ritual

Jarvis, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4149-7135 and Legrand, Tim (2017) Preaching to the converted: Parliament and the proscription ritual. Political Studies, 65 (4). pp. 947-965. ISSN 0032-3217

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Abstract

This article explores UK Parliamentary debate around the proscription – or banning – of terrorist organisations. It argues that these debates are usefully conceptualised as a form of political ritual organised around a core script, established participant roles, a shared respect for the performance of democracy and a predictable outcome. Taking these ritualistic aspects seriously extends research on proscription by highlighting the importance of the procedures through which such organisations are produced as requiring exclusion from the UK’s body politic. The article therefore makes three contributions. First, it provides a sustained empirical analysis of data from every relevant UK Parliamentary debate on proscription between 2001 and 2014. Second, it moves academic debate on proscription beyond questions of the power’s effectiveness and legitimacy. And, third, it contributes to contemporary work on political ritual by offering a new heuristic for the analysis thereof centred on four dimensions: orchestration, constitutivity, sedimentation and performativity.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ritual,parliament,performativity,proscription,counter-terrorism,british politics,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Critical Global Politics
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2016 00:02
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2024 02:13
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61578
DOI:	10.1177/0032321717694049

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