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ID164454
Title ProperToward a vernacular security studies
Other Title Informationorigins, interlocutors, contributions, and challenges
LanguageENG
AuthorJarvis, Lee
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article seeks to situate, evaluate, and advance the recent “turn” toward the “vernacular” within security studies. It argues that vernacular security studies has significant advantages over alternative “bottom up” approaches. First, its conceptual emptiness allows for genuinely inductive research into public experiences, understandings, anxieties, and fears. Second, it offers engagement with a potentially far richer tapestry of everyday (in)securities by refusing to prioritize particular populations by virtue of their identity or sociopolitical position. And, third, such an approach avoids the universalism inherent within related, yet more explicitly cosmopolitan, approaches to security. The article begins by situating vernacular security studies within relevant intellectual and (geo-)political dynamics from the late twentieth century. A second section distinguishes this approach from six alternative traditions with a similar emphasis on individual human referents: human security, critical security studies, postcolonialism, feminism, ontological security studies, and everyday security studies. The article then elaborates on the significance and added value of vernacular approaches to security, before outlining core conceptual, methodological, and ethical questions for future research.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Studies Review Vol. 21, No.1; Mar 2019: p.107–126
Journal SourceInternational Studies Review Vol: 21 No 1
Key WordsHuman Security ;  Feminism ;  Postcolonialism ;  Critical Security Studies ;  Everyday Security ;  Vernacular Security ;  International Relations


 
 
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