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Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars
Security Studies
  • Kelebogile Zvobgo, William & Mary
  • Arturo C. Sotomayor
  • Maria Rost Rublee
  • Meredith Loken
  • et al.
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Government
Pub Date
7-1-2023
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Abstract

Increased attention to racialized knowledge and methodological whiteness has swept the political science discipline, especially international relations. Yet an important dimension of race and racism continues to be ignored: the presence and status of scholars of color in the discipline. In contrast to other fields, there is little research on (under)representation of scholars of color in security studies, and no systematic studies of race and racial exclusion that center their voices and experiences. Building on scholarship that contends with the fundamental whiteness of academia and knowledge creation, we present results from a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. The data show that scholars of color and white scholars experience the field in dramatically different ways; scholars of color report at greater rates feeling unwelcome, experiencing harassment, and desiring more professional development opportunities. Dozens of studies across academia support these findings.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2230880
Citation Information
Kelebogile Zvobgo, Arturo C. Sotomayor, Maria Rost Rublee, Meredith Loken, et al.. "Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars" Security Studies (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kelebogile-zvobgo/15/