New editorial team for @risjnl.bsky.social: Call for expressions of interest - https://cup.org/44hjvux The closing date for expressions of interest is: 27 September 2026.
Lee Jarvis
@leejarvis.bsky.social
International politics academic, interested in security, (counter)terrorism, identity, memory, time.
Anya Pearson interviews @leejarvis.bsky.social @apowelllaw.bsky.social @michaellister.bsky.social, winners of the 2026 Crick Prize for their article on the growing influence of victim-led campaigns on UK lawmaking. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/it-give...
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Recently did an interview with Anya Pearson @politicalquarterly.bsky.social and my co-authors @leejarvis.bsky.social and @apowelllaw.bsky.social on our Crick Prize winning article on the phenomenon of naming laws after specific people, or Nominative Laws. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/it-give...
“It Gives me a Sense of Disquiet to Criticise These Things, but That’s why These Questions are Worth Asking”: Interview with Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Alex Powell
Anya Pearson interviews the 2026 winners of the Crick Prize.
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New article w. @leejarvis.bsky.social and Andrew Whiting, contrasting contemporary framings of terrorism in the US and UK. Whilst both understand terrorism in similar ways, its temporal framing, old or new, varies according to political circumstances. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The New ‘New terrorism’?: Continuity and Change in Temporal Constructions of Violence in the US and UK
This article contrasts political discourse on the threat posed by terrorism today from the US and UK. Three arguments are made. First, there is significant overlap in the characterisation of today’...
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Congratulations! @leejarvis.bsky.social @michaellister.bsky.social @apowelllaw.bsky.social worthy winners of the PQ Crick Prize for Best Piece @orwellprize.bsky.social for Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Beware! Here (might) be terrorists: Constructing the threat of terrorism in foreign travel advice - https://cup.org/3NM5xvD - @leejarvis.bsky.social #FristView
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...
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...
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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 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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.
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🚨New publication🚨 📖‘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. 🔗doi.org/10.1007/978-3-… 🧵👇🏻
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
Security Dialogue@secdialogue.bsky.social · 9mo agoOut 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...
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...
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...
🚨 The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close November 9. For more informational about the position, click here: lnkd.in/gGtgKJYW
LAST chance to sign up for tomorrow's BISA CRIPT WG event! 🚨 'Postgraduate masterclass: Pacifism and critical international political theory in a time of genocide and war' w/ Richard Jackson from University of Otago 🌎 Sign up now 👉 https://ow.ly/FpG850XaQKZ Kieran O’Meara
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🔍 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.
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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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 ...
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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:
The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense@bunkerpod.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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...
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.
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New piece with @timlegrand.bsky.social on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...
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.
e-ir.info
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 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #EmoSoc SocSky #Sociology
