It is impossible to talk about race in international relations (IR) without acknowledging the early and groundbreaking intervention of a couple of special issues, followed by conversation-changing book anthologies. Despite these contributions, mainstream IR continues to marginalize the valuable work of non-white institutions and people, while minimizing the role of race and racism in the discipline. In the wake of a historic racial uprising in the United States (and globally) during the summer of 2020, IR scholars returned to critical discussions of race and racism in the contemporary moment. Although the current conversations on race in IR are crucial for directing the field toward a more generative path, there is still work to be done. Many of the existing formulations of race orient the concept around the somatic. The overreliance on the body as an indication of race can obscure how race as a set of dispossessing structures supported and reproduced through a variety of agents and mechanisms can be discerned through other means. Body-centric conceptualizations of race are also typically divorced from their origins at the root of capitalism, in favor of more US-centric renderings of race as identity. The contributors to this forum think through race as the concomitant othering and rank-ordering of groups that translates into material conditions. We illustrate how race as a material–spatial–temporal relation of power exposes the limits of race as merely phenotype or culture. Through our examination of race in this light, issues of gender effortlessly emerge alongside the study of race. As such, we demonstrate how a re-reading of IR with this formulation of race as its central tenet offers a more generative avenue for explorations of class, gender, security, and power, writ large.

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论坛：剥离身体：在 IR 中重新构想种族的前景

如果不承认一些特殊问题的早期和开创性干预，以及随后改变谈话的书选，就不可能谈论国际关系 (IR) 中的种族。尽管有这些贡献，主流 IR 继续边缘化非白人机构和人民的宝贵工作，同时最大限度地减少种族和种族主义在学科中的作用。在 2020 年夏天美国（和全球）发生历史性种族起义之后，国际关系学者们回到了当代对种族和种族主义的批判性讨论。尽管当前关于 IR 中种族的对话对于引导该领域走向更具生成性的道路至关重要，但仍有工作要做。许多现有的种族表述都是围绕躯体的概念来定位的。过度依赖身体作为种族的标志可能会掩盖种族作为一组通过各种代理和机制支持和复制的剥夺结构如何通过其他方式识别。以身体为中心的种族概念化也通常与资本主义根源的起源脱节，有利于以美国为中心的种族身份认同。该论坛的贡献者认为，种族是伴随而来的其他群体和转化为物质条件的群体排序。我们说明了种族作为权力的物质-空间-时间关系如何将种族的局限性暴露为仅仅是表型或文化。通过我们从这个角度审视种族，性别问题毫不费力地与种族研究一起出现。因此，