Racism Without the Word — Somdeep Sen
About this episode
Dr. Somdeep Sen discusses the racial logic underlying international relations and the impact of colonial vocabularies post-9/11.
After 9/11, the word "terrorism" replaced older colonial vocabularies — but the racial logic underneath stayed intact. Dr Somdeep Sen of Roskilde University joins The IR thinker to show how concepts such as development, security, and the War on Terror continue to sort the world along racial lines, even when race itself goes unnamed. From NATO's global colour line to China's reproduction of Western hierarchies within the Global South, this conversation maps the hidden architecture of race in contemporary IR. Somdeep Sen Dr Sen is Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University, whose research explores race and racism in international relations, settler colonialism, liberation movements, and postcolonial theory. Publications Race (Chapter 9) NATO and the global colour line Decolonising to Reimagine International Relations A Postcolonial Critique of EU-Middle East Relations Race, Racism, and the Teaching of International Relations Content 00:00 - Introduction 02:34 - How IR Erased Race — Deliberately and Systematically 07:09 - Why "sanitised" Language Still Encodes Racial Hierarchy 10:11 - Race Beyond the North–South Divide 15:15 - How Racial Logic…
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