New Directions in Vernacular Security Research

Lee Jarvis is Professor of Security and Society at Adelaide University, Australia. His research focuses on the construction and communication of security challenges.Michael Lister is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research focuses on the intersections between citizenship and terrorism/counterterrorism.Akinyemi Oyawale is an Assistant Professor in International Relations in the Politics and International Studies Department (PAIS) at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on a critical interrogation of International Relations theory including its often unacknowledged raced and gendered dimensions and in how citizens construct their experiences of (in)security.

• 1. Lee Jarvis (Loughborough, UK), Michael Lister (Oxford Brookes, UK), and Akinyemi Oyawale (Warwick, UK) - New Directions in Vernacular Security Research: An Introduction.- 2. Tinatin Khomeriki (Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia) Horns, Thorns and Territory: Vernacular (in)Security in Tbilisi after the Rose Revolution.- 3. Albert Cano (LSE, UK) Lacanian Vernacular Security: Analysing Peace Walls and Pop Culture in Northern Ireland.- 4. Joshua Akintayo (Kent, UK) Deifying the Vernacular: The Borno Model and the limits of Over-romanticizing Community-Driven Security.- 5. Miranda Booth (Charles Darwin, Australia) Exploring polycentrism and vernacular security in the Pacific.- 6. Muhammed Onuh Copoglu (Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey), What Fire Tells us about Security? A Vernacular Approach on the Security-Politics-Environment Nexus in Turkey.- 7. Andrew Whiting (RHUL, UK) – Militarised masculinity as ‘everyday’ instrumentality: A narrative analysis of popularised soldier’s autobiographies.- 8. Sabrina Ahmed (UEA, UK) - “The Police are like terrorists”: Vernacular security stories from the refugee camps in Bangladesh.- 9. Marine Guéguin (Leeds Beckett, UK) Everyday security practices in an exceptional space: the French carceral system.- 10. Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (DCU, Ireland) “You have a responsibility to tell this story”. Positionality, subjugated knowledges, and researching ‘vernacular’ security in Tunisia.- 11. Tom Martin (Open University, UK) Vernacular (national) security strategies.