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Vernacular Securities and Their Study

A Qualitative Analysis and Research Agenda

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ID4761591
AuthorsLee Jarvis (0000-0002-4149-7135, Swansea University), Michael Lister (0009-0003-8995-0052, Oxford Brookes University)
Year2013
Volume27
Issue2
Pages158-179
Publication date2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117812460880
OpenAlexW2070643300
LanguageEN
Citations received86

This article draws on primary focus group research to explore the differing ways in which UK publics conceptualise and discuss security. The article begins by situating our research within two relevant contemporary scholarly literatures: The first concerns efforts to centre the 'ordinary' human as security's referent; the second, constructivist explorations of security's discursive (re)production. A second section then introduces six distinct understandings of security that emerged in our empirical research. These organised the term around notions of survival, belonging, hospitality, equality, freedom and insecurity. The article concludes by exploring this heterogeneity and its significance for the study of security more broadly, outlining a number of potential future research avenues in this area

Critical security studies · Empirical research · Epistemology · Hospitality · Political science · Security studies · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law

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