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ID192988
Title ProperUpholding disciplinary whiteness
Other Title Informationthe #Sdscandal, gender and international relations’ critical turn
LanguageENG
AuthorHowell, Alison ;  Richter-Montpetit, Melanie
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article examines the #SdScandal: the backroom and public fracas surrounding an article on epistemic racism in classic securitization theory that we authored. It argues that what the #SdScandal illustrates is that disciplinary whiteness in international relations has been upheld not despite, but in part through, the ‘critical turn’. Using textual analysis as well as cyber-ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods, it details how post-positivist knowledge-frames sometimes become vehicles for the rehabilitation of racial-colonial concepts, and how white femininities and novel tender masculinities can be evoked in the defence of institutional hierarchies. That such gendered shifts in disciplinary whiteness (seem to) depart from old-guard ‘white man’s IR’ (per Lake, 2016) only increases their efficacy in securing the status quo. The article further contextualizes this argument about international relations within the broad backlash against resurgent claims for racial justice both inside and outside the academy. It identifies political-intellectual convergences, not only between orthodox and some critical thought, but between right-wing and some self-identified liberal, leftist and/or feminist scholars, especially around the supposed threat of ‘cancellation’ of scholars and scholarship. Examining what critics of the #SdScandal called threats of retribution against this journal, it argues that at stake are issues of editorial independence and academic freedom, and, more broadly, contending visions of how to pursue anti-racism.
`In' analytical NoteSecurity Dialogue Vol. 54, No.4; Aug 2023: p.313–336
Journal SourceSecurity Dialogue Vol: 54 No 4
Key WordsRacism ;  Academic freedom ;  Feminism ;  Cancel Culture ;  Decolonising Critical Theory


 
 
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