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On a more serious note....
The responses by Wæver & Buzan regarding #SecuritizationTheory being racist & methodologically white remind me a whole lot of how many economists react to calls to decolonize economics. These are not personal attacks, but structural critiques... 🙄
The responses by Wæver & Buzan regarding #SecuritizationTheory being racist & methodologically white remind me a whole lot of how many economists react to calls to decolonize economics. These are not personal attacks, but structural critiques... 🙄
.. And while I get tired of economists using "rigor" as some kind of impregnable shield against these kinds of critiques, it seems like IR has reached a new level of methodological gatekeeping with this "deepfake" terminology 🧐
These debates are clearly much broader than just about #SecuritizationTheory. There are seemingly neutral but deeply Eurocentric categories employed across the social sciences. In Economics we might think of good governance, perfect competition, rational man, efficiency....
#SecuritizationTheory is racist, anti-black, methodologically white, civilizationist & supremacist. Claimed article by Howell&Richter-Montpetit in SecurityDialogue Aug19. The theory’s creators #BarryBuzan & I now got reply publ’ed w many hurdles #SdScandal bit.ly/3dM7AbS
H&RM empty out the critical clout of calling #racism by stretching it to far-fetched speculations about our theory. What’s left to call the actual racism playing out around us today? Is devaluing the category ‘racist’ useful? #TrivilializingRacism #AcademicNavelgazing 2/18
Strange combination of extreme conclusions & aggressive allegations with very weak textual analysis: the article miscites, misunderstands, makes things up, demonstrably misrepresents, use guilt by association: You cite Durkheim? Arendt? Your’re racist! 3/18
