Friday, 21 Nov 2025
Twenty years of vernacular security research
The concept of security is a complicated, and much contested, one. Does it entail survival, freedom, the absence of fear, a predictable future? Is it a property of states, of individuals, of groups, of collective identities? And how do we go about evaluating – or even attempting to rank – the importance of threats to security when those threats might be as different as climate change, great power war, domestic violence, pandemics, and terrorism?
