Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Government
Journal Title
Security Studies
Pub Date
7-2023
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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.
Recommended Citation
Zvobgo, Kelebogile; Sotomayor, Arturo C.; Rublee, Maria Rost; Loken, Meredith; and et al., Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars (2023). Security Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2230880
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2230880
