Today's news on a new 'Virginia's Law' after Virginia Giuffre is an important case of campaigning for rights in the name of victims of injustice. Here, @apowelllaw.bsky.social, @michaellister.bsky.social & I explore the socio-political contexts of this trend: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌎🪖 "Beware! Here (might) be terrorists: Constructing the threat of terrorism in foreign travel advice" by @leejarvis.bsky.social.

📚👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Beware! Here (might) be terrorists: Constructing the threat of terrorism in foreign travel advice - https://cup.org/3NM5xvD

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Vernacular Security Studies: Concepts, Cases, and Critiques This book covers new conceptual, methodological, and empirical issues that will progress debate on Vernacular Security Studies (VSS) and the value of studying ordinary articulations of (in)security. B...

Out today-and with 20% off! The latest in a series of collections on vernacular security I’ve co-edited with @akinoyawale.bsky.social and @leejarvis.bsky.social. Contains some great chapters by @andri-i.bsky.social @samarjit.bsky.social, Nils Bubandt and others. www.routledge.com/Vernacular-S...

New Directions in Vernacular Security Research This book provides a fresh perspective on vernacular security, featuring diverse case studies and unique sources to enrich your understanding.

Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between

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📖‘We’re the Goodies—Lacanian Vernacular Peace: Ideology, Derry Girls, and Ontological (In)Security in Northern Ireland’.

Chapter I n Jarvis, L., Lister, M., Oyawale, A. (eds) New Directions in Vernacular Security Research.

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A real pleasure to work with @leejarvis.bsky.social @akinoyawale.bsky.social, the @secdialogue.bsky.social editorial team and all the excellent contributors to this volume: Joseph Downing, Nicole George, Sarai B. Aharoni, Amalia Sa’ar, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social, Nick Vaughan-Williams & Hannah Owens

So pleased to see this special issue on #vernacularsecurity published in Security Dialogue. Guest edited with @michaellister.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social, all articles are open access and free to read! Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/SDI/curr...

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Out now! A new special issue from @secdialogue.bsky.social with an excellent line-up of contributors to mark 20 years of vernacular security research! Guest edited by @leejarvis.bsky.social @michaellister.bsky.social & Akinyemi Oyawale journals.sagepub.com/toc/SDI/curr...

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On the left is the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are shown in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image features the shadow of a hand holding a key on a wall, overlaid with the article title and author: “Strategies of Critique in Vernacular Security Discourse” by Lee Jarvis.

🔍 Interest in vernacular security is on the rise, yet it remains under-theorised.

📚 @leejarvis.bsky.social addresses this gap with a new typology of critiques found in below-the-line commentary on extremism politics.

👉 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

New article just published in the Journal of Global Security Studies on different critical strategies within vernacular discourse on security. The article's open access and free to read here academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

So pleased to see the introduction to our special issue on #vernacularsecurity published in Security Dialogue! Coauthored with @michaellister.bsky.social & Akin Oyawale, the issue pushes vernacular security research into exciting new directions. Free to read here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law**

@jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic

Thrilled to have a chapter in this new book, now published with @manchesterup.bsky.social. My chapter with @michaellister.bsky.social looks at UK security policies and priorities, including in relation to COVID, terrorism, and austerity.

Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice Nominative laws—laws named after particular victims of violence or injustice such as Martyn's Law, Sarah's Law and Awaab's Law—have become increasingly prominent in the UK. In this article, we offer ...

New Publication with @leejarvis.bsky.social and @michaellister.bsky.social outlining the phenomenon that we have dubbed 'nominative laws'. The Article is available Open Access via the link below.

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Thanks so much!

Great, balanced @politicalquarterly.bsky.social essay on the unhappy rise of laws named after victims onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social w/ @michaellister.bsky.social & @apowelllaw.bsky.social on the naming of laws after exemplary victims of injustice. While opening space for addressing harm, such laws also, we argue, pose political & legal risks: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What does proscribing Palestinian Action mean in practice? Can they just change the name? Legal expert @leejarvis.bsky.social explains:

MPs have voted in favour of legislation to proscribe group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Today in The Bunker, @gavinesler.bsky.social sits down with @leejarvis.bsky.social to unpack what it really means to be proscribed.

Listen here: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Trial and terror: What actually happens when a group is 'proscribed'? Podcast Episode · The Bunker – News without the nonsense · 03/07/2025 · 18m

Really pleased to talk about #proscription with @gavinesler.bsky.social on @bunkerpod.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

My @lborouniversity.bsky.social colleague (unfortunately not for much longer, he is leaving us for greener pastures 🥺) has published on @e-international.bsky.social this interesting commentary on the proscription of #PalestineAction @leejarvis.bsky.social www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...

Thank you!

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

New piece with @timlegrand.bsky.social on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...

Call for Special Issue papers: Masculinities and Emotions: Changing Times and Contexts Emotions and Society cover

Are you researching the role of emotions in #Masculinity?♂️
Make a submission to our upcoming special issue of Emotions and Society
📆 Abstract submission 15 Jul
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Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism, and Justice Naming of a law after a person – nominative lawmaking - appears to be something of a growing trend in the UK.

Why do we see laws being named after victims of tragedy or crime? And why it might matter socially and politically? New piece with @michaellister.bsky.social & Alex Powell previews a forthcoming article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/stop-in...

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