Description
Dominant scholarship of security in the Pacific focusses on policy as well as discourse analysis. Little research examines how the people of the Pacific, understand and conceptualise security in their daily lives. Inspired by the ‘vernacular turn’ in critical security studies, this paper attempts to address this limitation by drawing on Samoan understanding of security in their vernacular. In doing so, it seeks to expand the literature on vernacular security and understanding of security in Samoa (and more broadly the Pacific).
