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Working Group (Anti-)racism

3. Funding period (2022-2025)

The working group (anti-)racism deals with the connection between securitization and mechanisms of racism. On the one hand, it deals with the recent debate about whether securitization theory itself has a problem of racism or is at least blind to racism and certain mechanisms of oppression due to its concept of politics. On the other hand, it deals with the questions of how racism can be uncovered and explained with the tools of critical security studies and which possible counter-strategies against securitization processes from the field of anti-racist struggles can be used for this purpose. To this end, the group engages with various debates from historical studies and political theory that attempt to bring in peripheral perspectives (e.g. Sarah Bertrand, Beirut School of critical security studies), critically consider the connection between racism and capitalism (e.g. Cedric Robinson et al.), and look at processes of silencing (e.g. Lene Hansen, Michel-Rolph Troulliot).

Speaker of the working group
Regina Kreide