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This edited volume offers a detailed engagement with a significant range of case studies and contexts that have been neglected in the field of vernacular security research which has tended to focus upon a small number of well-studied cases (especially counterterrorism and migration policy in the UK). The chapters incorporate scholarship that emerges from fieldwork and other primary research in contexts including Georgia, Tunisia, Bangladesh and the Pacific Islands, giving it a genuinely international focus. Other chapters focus on unusual and untouched sources of vernacular security knowledge such as the published autobiographies of soldiers, popular culture artefacts, and national security strategies. The book ends with an agenda-setting piece focusing on future directions of vernacular security research.
List of contents
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.
