New Directions in Vernacular Security Research

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.