The article argues that academics navigate and occupy various localities, spaces, and identities, which allows them to be self-reflexive in understanding the inherent challenges in diversifying the discipline. Using personal narratives as a methodological and theoretical tool, this article situates plural experiences and contexts of a woman of color, working in precarity in academia. The intersection of multiple identities reveals various sites of privilege and oppression, and inclusion and exclusion. Unsettling and dismantling binaries and identities reveal complex entanglements and connections that provide more nuanced understandings of IR. This article further discusses ways the discipline of IR has excluded diverse theoretical and empirical knowledges and regions, including critical approaches and the Global South. This disciplinary exclusion and erasure is reproduced in everyday academic practice and can serve as an entry point to understand why diverse communities are underrepresented in IR. Further, academia is not immune from the functions of power and social and economic hierarchies in society, and those hierarchies are manifested in various forms of asymmetry observable in academia, especially toward diverse communities and academics working in precarity.

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驾驭多重身份：去中心化国际关系

这篇文章认为，学者们在不同的地点、空间和身份中导航和占据，这使他们能够在理解学科多样化的内在挑战时进行自我反思。本文使用个人叙述作为方法论和理论工具，将一位有色人种女性的多重经历和背景置于学术界的不稳定状态。多重身份的交汇揭示了各种特权与压迫、包容与排斥的场所。令人不安和拆解的二进制文件和身份揭示了复杂的纠缠和联系，从而提供了对 IR 更细致入微的理解。本文进一步讨论了国际关系学科排除各种理论和经验知识和地区的方式，包括批判性方法和全球南方。这种学科排除和删除在日常学术实践中得到了再现，可以作为一个切入点来理解为什么不同社区在 IR 中的代表性不足。此外，学术界也不能免受社会中权力和社会经济等级制度的影响，这些等级制度表现为学术界可以观察到的各种形式的不对称，尤其是对处于不稳定状态的不同社区和学者而言。