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Michael Lister

@michaellister.bsky.social
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Politics, Oxford Brookes University. Researching security, terrorism, counterterrorism, public opinion

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Oxford Brookes UCU @brookesucu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please support colleagues at Exeter who face the threat of redundancies. Solidarity from UCU members at Brookes.
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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...
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“It Gives me a Sense of Disquiet to Criticise These Things, but That’s why These Questions are Worth Asking”: Interview with Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Alex Powell
Anya Pearson interviews the 2026 winners of the Crick Prize.
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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....
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The New ‘New terrorism’?: Continuity and Change in Temporal Constructions of Violence in the US and UK
This article contrasts political discourse on the threat posed by terrorism today from the US and UK. Three arguments are made. First, there is significant overlap in the characterisation of today’...
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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.
Michael Lister and Alex Powell receiving the Crick Prize last night
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Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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! ☕
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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-...
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Who cares what you think? Public voices, politics and security
Join us for this open lecture with Professor Michael Lister, exploring the views, thoughts and experiences of "ordinary" people in politics.
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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-...
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Who cares what you think? Public voices, politics and security
Join us for this open lecture with Professor Michael Lister, exploring the views, thoughts and experiences of "ordinary" people in politics.
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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....
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 23/01/2026
#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Beware! Here (might) be terrorists: Constructing the threat of terrorism in foreign travel advice - cup.org/3NM5xvD - @leejarvis.bsky.social #FristView
A close-up of the European Journal of International Security magazine with the hashtag #OpenAccess visible at the top right corner.
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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Vernacular Security Studies: Concepts, Cases, and Critiques
This book covers new conceptual, methodological, and empirical issues that will progress debate on Vernacular Security Studies (VSS) and the value of studying ordinary articulations of (in)security. B...
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Andrew W Neal @andrewwneal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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After Nord Stream: four security dilemmas in critical maritime infrastructure protection
Measures intended to protect critical marine infrastructure against persistent hybrid threats can generate unintended vulnerabilities and dilemmas. This ar
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
This book provides a fresh perspective on vernacular security, featuring diverse case studies and unique sources to enrich your understanding.
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Security Dialogue @secdialogue.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Just in time for your weekend: New blogposts on the @secdialogue.bsky.social blog covering Vernacular security, Hezbollah's endurance and threat forecasting:
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Security Dialogue @secdialogue.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
Security Dialogue special issue on a display shelf next to a Security Dialogue jubilee cup
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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
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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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/...
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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...
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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/...
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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.
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Great, balanced @politicalquarterly.bsky.social essay on the unhappy rise of laws named after victims onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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/...
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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 👇
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Really pleased to talk about #proscription with @gavinesler.bsky.social on @bunkerpod.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Trial and terror: What actually happens when a group is 'proscribed'?
Podcast Episode · The Bunker – News without the nonsense · 03/07/2025 · 18m
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New piece with @timlegrand.bsky.social on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...
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Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK
The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Really enjoyed working with @leejarvis.bsky.social and @apowelllaw.bsky.social on this. Full article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social soon!
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Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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...
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Politics Journal @politicsjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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/...
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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...
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Reflecting on Terrorism’s Temporalities After the Southport Attacks
The question over what ‘terrorism’ means has divided and confounded researchers, as well as policymakers and citizens, since the term’s emergence.
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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...
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Reflecting on Terrorism’s Temporalities After the Southport Attacks
The question over what ‘terrorism’ means has divided and confounded researchers, as well as policymakers and citizens, since the term’s emergence.
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Andrew W Neal @andrewwneal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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...
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Critical security research and the war on terror: From the margins to the mainstream? | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
Critical security research and the war on terror: From the margins to the mainstream?
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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)
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Critical security research and the war on terror: From the margins to the mainstream? | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
Critical security research and the war on terror: From the margins to the mainstream?
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Really proud to be part of this excellent collection of articles. Thanks to the editors!
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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was honored to be a part of this wonderful issue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What the War on Terror leaves behind: An introduction | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
What the War on Terror leaves behind: An introduction
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
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...
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Contexts and Questions Around the UK’s New Protect Duty
The United Kingdom’s counterterrorism framework is about to be dramatically extended – but with what consequences and for whom?
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Time to dust this one off….
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