Please support colleagues at Exeter who face the threat of redundancies. Solidarity from UCU members at Brookes.

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...

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....

Really honoured to receive the Crick Prize last night at the @orwellprize.bsky.social ceremony, with @leejarvis.bsky.social and @apowelllaw.bsky.social. So many other inspiring award winners and finalists - especially the Orwell Youth Prize finalists.

Final reminder that this event is happening TOMORROW from 5pm in the East Oxford Community Centre. I'll be sharing some reflections on interviews I did with HIV positive people about how we've been (and could be better) represented culturally, followed by a discussion, with refreshments provided! ☕

I’m giving my inaugural lecture on 25th March, 6-7pm at Oxford Brookes University, entitled “Who cares what you think? Public voices, politics and security”. Tickets are free, book at the link below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-cares-...

I’m giving my inaugural lecture on 25th March, 6-7pm at Oxford Brookes University, entitled “Who cares what you think? Public voices, politics and security”. Tickets are free, book at the link below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-cares-...

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....

#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...

1/9 New article out in International Affairs! 'After Nord Stream: four security dilemmas in critical maritime infrastructure protection' – open access. How do efforts to protect pipelines, cables & wind farms paradoxically create new vulnerabilities? 🔗 academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

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...

Just in time for your weekend: New blogposts on the @secdialogue.bsky.social blog covering Vernacular security, Hezbollah's endurance and threat forecasting:

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...

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

New publication from PAIS' Akinyemi Oyawale! Akin, with Prof. Lee Jarvis (University of Adelaide) and Prof. Michael Lister (Oxford Brookes), examines vernacular security in Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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/...

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.

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/...

Great working with @apowelllaw.bsky.social and @leejarvis.bsky.social on this piece about the increasing prevalence of naming laws after specific people. Open Access at the link 👇

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

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

Really enjoyed working with @leejarvis.bsky.social and @apowelllaw.bsky.social on this. Full article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social soon!

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...

1/3. We're excited to announce the publication of our latest article: "Security Professionals and Public Opinion: Legitimacy, Publicity, and Brand Identity", by Michael Lister! @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

My new article is out in @journalpolitics.bsky.social. “Security professionals and public opinion: legitimacy, publicity and brand identity”. It looks at the ways in which non elected security professionals, think about public opinion. Open access (1/2) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In our latest issue, Chris Hesketh elucidates on the concept of ‘coloniality of space’ in the context of Latin America. It's #OpenAccess and free to read! 📄 👉 buff.ly/UcyGmZk

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...

Fascinating new open access article from @leejarvis.bsky.social and @michaellister.bsky.social. They argue, in short, that we critical security/terrorism scholars told you so, but that converging with the mainstream raises questions for the critical project. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The special issue's final piece, by @michaellister.bsky.social & me, asks what happens to critical security thinking when its ideas and arguments achieve (or appear to achieve) wider currency: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread, 11/12)

Really proud to be part of this excellent collection of articles. Thanks to the editors!

I was honored to be a part of this wonderful issue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great to work with @leejarvis.bsky.social on this. It’s part of a special issue ‘What the War on Terror Leaves Behind’, which has some awesome papers. Thanks to the brilliant special issue editors @htoros.bsky.social @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social

New blog post on the forthcoming Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, aka Martyn’s Law, with Lee Jarvis, Birgit den Outer, Dan Stevens & Nick Vaughan-Williams www.e-ir.info/2024/10/30/c...

Time to dust this one off….