This article seeks to situate, evaluate, and advance the recent “turn” toward the “vernacular” within security studies. It argues that vernacular security studies has significant advantages over alternative “bottom up” approaches. First, its conceptual emptiness allows for genuinely inductive research into public experiences, understandings, anxieties, and fears. Second, it offers engagement with a potentially far richer tapestry of everyday (in)securities by refusing to prioritize particular populations by virtue of their identity or sociopolitical position. And, third, such an approach avoids the universalism inherent within related, yet more explicitly cosmopolitan, approaches to security. The article begins by situating vernacular security studies within relevant intellectual and (geo-)political dynamics from the late twentieth century. A second section distinguishes this approach from six alternative traditions with a similar emphasis on individual human referents: human security, critical security studies, postcolonialism, feminism, ontological security studies, and everyday security studies. The article then elaborates on the significance and added value of vernacular approaches to security, before outlining core conceptual, methodological, and ethical questions for future research.

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走向本土安全研究：起源、对话者、贡献和挑战

本文旨在定位、评估和推进最近在安全研究中向“白话”的“转向”。它认为，与替代的“自下而上”方法相比，本土安全研究具有显着优势。首先，它在概念上的空性允许对公共经验、理解、焦虑和恐惧进行真正的归纳研究。其次，它拒绝根据特定人群的身份或社会政治地位对其进行优先排序，从而提供了与潜在更丰富的日常（非）安全挂毯的接触。第三，这种方法避免了相关但更明确的世界性安全方法中固有的普遍主义。本文首先将本土安全研究置于 20 世纪后期的相关知识和（地缘）政治动态中。第二部分将这种方法与六种替代传统区分开来，这些传统同样强调个人的人类指涉：人类安全、批判性安全研究、后殖民主义、女权主义、本体安全研究和日常安全研究。然后，在概述未来研究的核心概念、方法和伦理问题之前，文章详细阐述了本土安全方法的重要性和附加价值。