A call for abolition: The disavowal and displacement of race in critical security studies

We offer a rejoinder to Security Dialogue’s call for reparative work on race and racism in Critical Studies, questioning the ability of discipline at heart an Antiblack world, engage truly practices. The attempt incorporate questions into requires disavowal, as it denies that Studies emerged from is embedded systems, structures institutions power rely Antiblackness. This leads displacement, assumes remain separable refusing acknowledge has always been part problem. Thus, we make two main points response calls reparation within Studies. Firstly, there can be no openings position discipline, remains grounds Secondly, repair ethico-political future other than abolition.