Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts

• Published in: Millennium Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 3 - 31
• Main Author: Sabaratnam, Meera
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Academic writing; Attention deficits; Discourse; Epistemology; Hegemony; Ignorance; Innocence; Interconnections; International relations; Keohane, Robert; Positioning; Power structure; Race; Race relations; Racialization; Racism; Social theories; Theory; Waltz, Kenneth (1924-2013); White supremacy; raza; race; discours; subject-positions; racialisation; discurso; teoría de la Relaciones Internacionales; IR theory; théorie des relations internationales; Whiteness; discourse

Racism is a historically specific structure of modern global power which generates hierarchies of the human and affirms White supremacy. This has far-reaching material and epistemological consequences in the present, one of which is the production and naturalisation of White-racialised subject posit...