Where exactly am I sitting at that table? Race, Prejudice, and Perpetual (In)security in Global Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5682458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bina D’costa (0000-0003-3698-9378, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12-16 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-4887 • E-ISSN: 2162-4909 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21624887.2021.1904189 |
| OpenAlex | W3141223594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 4 |
Who hasn’t heard about women must sit at the table? In this sense, the table is a place of influence and power. Critical IR, particularly those focussing on women’s participation in peace negotiations, in security discourses, and advocacy campaigns emphasise women must have a seat at the table to contribute to meaningful change. In this piece, I reflect on my everyday experiences of (in)security in teaching and practising security. I argue that structural measures of inclusion and diversity in the discipline of critical IR and security studies depoliticise meaningful and truly transformative inclusion by focussing on indicators, deliverables, action plans, and outcomes. These make gender hyper-visible rendering race, class, linguistic and other markers invisible. In this sense, having a seat at the table means nothing, as individuals could still remain powerless in the absence of genuine commitment of others occupying key positions in that table
Invisibility · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
A Voice or an Echo
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine
Seeing beyond disciplines
Decolonising affect
On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security
Race and racism in narratives of insecurity
A decolonial narrative of sexuality and world politics when race is everywhere and nowhere
Learning to say 'no
The 'savage' Pathan (Pashtun) and the postcolonial burden
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |