In 2020, Security Dialogue issued a call for interventions on race and racism in critical security studies, responding to a tumultuous year of global upheaval and academic controversy surrounding racial issues in contemporary society. In the call, the editors highlighted the lack of engagement with race in the field, requesting submissions that interrogate these issues and propose reparative framings to inform future research. Our response to this call seeks to raise some notes of caution, to indicate that the depth and nature of the problem require full acknowledgement prior to the consideration of what, if any, reparative work may be undertaken. We do not think that the call is problematic in its statement that ‘the spectres of race and racism haunt the field of critical security studies, not just the broader discipline of International Relations’ (Security Dialogue, 2020). However, we question the ability of the field to provide reparative perspectives that are adequate to the task of grappling with these spectres.

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呼吁废除：关键安全研究中对种族的否认和取代

2020年安全对话发出呼吁在关键安全研究中对种族和种族主义进行干预，以回应围绕当代社会种族问题的全球动荡和学术争议的动荡一年。在电话会议中，编辑们强调了该领域缺乏对种族的参与，要求提交询问这些问题并提出修复框架的意见书，以告知未来的研究。我们对这一呼吁的回应试图提出一些警告，以表明在考虑可能进行的修复工作（如果有的话）之前，需要充分承认问题的深度和性质。我们认为该呼吁在其声明中没有问题，即“种族和种族主义的幽灵困扰着批判性安全研究领域，而不仅仅是更广泛的国际关系学科”（安全对话，2020 年）。然而，我们质疑该领域提供足以应对这些幽灵任务的修复性观点的能力。