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#OpenAccess #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...

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 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

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

🔍 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/...

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

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

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...

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

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

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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We're hiring! Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations. Sharing = 🙏❤️ www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Just out in @secdialogue.bsky.social My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity doi.org/10.1177/0967...

Critical Terrorism Studies - Lee Jarvis | 2024 Episode 15 What makes Critical Terrorism Studies critical? Prof. Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social unpacks CTS’s ethical, reflexive, and interdisciplinary approach to studying terrorism and state power. #CriticalTerrorismStudies youtu.be/v6jA3Fb6FBQ

🚨NOMINATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! You now have until 11.59pm (UK time) Thur 24 April to nominate yourself for a BISA trustee position Available roles: Vice-Chair, EDI Officer, 4x trustee. Find out more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-no... @julietdryden.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social

Academic blogging event📝 Mira Mookerjee and @zaraqadir.bsky.social are sharing what they've learnt from a year of running the @globalsouthshub.bsky.social blog! link 👉 buff.ly/gPgqqFf @simonrushton.bsky.social @unamcgahern.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social

📚Just announced - our Susan Strange Best Book Prize shortlist of 3 excellent books 📚https://buff.ly/ukrRf2J Huge congratulations to all the authors! @profsophieharman.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @laramonteco.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

🌐 MAJOR UPDATE: National Security and Defence Documents Dataset (1987-2024) v2.0 I'm excited to announce the release of version 2.0 of our comprehensive dataset on global security and defence policies! 📊

BISA AspIRing Scholars Fund🌟 Just launched - a fund that will be entirely dedicated to providing vital grants for PhD students and early-career academics - every contribution, big or small, makes a huge difference! buff.ly/ba1kXbR @nickcaddick.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

He said it, hold him to it! 👇

Excellent new article by @michaellister.bsky.social in @politicsjournal.bsky.social on the importance of public opinion to security professionals. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1/4. New article alert! "Children's literature and/as political critique: Storying the violences of exclusionary politics" by Lee Jarvis & Nick Robinson examines how children's books critique practices of exclusion and banishment @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Delighted to see our new article published! In it, Nick Robinson and I explore the value of children's books as a site of critical engagement with world politics, focusing on the forcible exclusion of unwanted individuals. Open access and free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Do you want to be a co-convenor? The BISA Emotions in Politics and IR working group is seeking applications for the position of co-convenor! Please send a CV and a short statement of interest (no more than a paragraph) to [email protected] until 28 February! Join us!

📢The #BISA2025 programme has been released & registration is open!! All submissions should have received an email notifying you about your status on the programme & details of registration/accommodation. Any queries email [email protected] @julietdryden.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social

Groups like Al Qaeda used to be the antithesis of older terrorisms like the IRA. Now they're often seen as equivalent. What's going on with our temporal imaginaries of terrorism? And why does it matter? New E-IR piece w/ Andrew Whiting & @michaellister.bsky.social: www.e-ir.info/2025/01/29/r...

New blog post about how we think about terrorism and time, with @leejarvis.bsky.social and Andy Whiting. Short thread: (1/n) www.e-ir.info/2025/01/29/r...

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Children’s games and global politics: Masculinity, militarism, and the warrior hero" by Lee Jarvis is now available #OpenAccess! 📜➡️ buff.ly/4gytMqA

COVID-19 and the Limits of Critical Security Theory: Securitization, Cosmopolitanism, and Pandemic Politics Journal of Global Security Studies @profjackholland.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

We've started getting abstracts in for our official BISA pre-workshop, Hubris in International Relations. Send us your abstract by close of 6 January. It'll be in Belfast in June. Details: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-pa...

Really pleased to see this article now published in @risjnl.bsky.social! It explores depictions of warrior heroism in games played by young children, and why these might be important for the everyday reproduction of global politics. The article's free to read here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you would like to be the next Montague Burton Chair at @lseir.bsky.social pls apply! 👇

🎉 Call For Special Issue Proposals 🎉 We are now accepting proposals for our next special issue (Volume 52). Check out the guidelines here 👇 buff.ly/4itg21G