Tag: whiteness of International Relations

Overcoming ‘innocent’ outrage: paying attention to the structures of whiteness in the discipline of IR

In the academic year’s final reading group meeting titled “Racialization, eurocentricity and colonialism in IR” we focused on recent scholarship on the whiteness in/of IR. We discussed Alison Howell and Melanie Richter-Montpetit’s 2023 article “Upholding disciplinary whiteness: The #SdScandal, gender and international relations’ critical turn” and Meera Sabaratnam’s 2020 article “Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts”.