Abstract
This article briefly analyzes the implications of Lewis Gordon’s work on race, racism and disciplinarity in our field of inquiry, peace studies. The centrality of human beings and freedom in Gordon's philosophy, and his metadisciplinary reflections help us to rethink our experience as doctoral students in the discipline where questions of race, racism and colonialism are undertheorized. We contend that an interdisciplinary approach that leaves disciplines unquestioned is insufficient to address problems of racism. Keywords: Lewis Gordon; race; racism; peace studies; disciplinary decadence.
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This article briefly analyzes the implications of Lewis Gordon’s work on race, racism and disciplinarity in our field of inquiry, peace studies
Understanding the construction of race as the product of meaning-constituting activities of humans resulting from the changes in human relations requires looking back at the year1492, which inaugurated the European encounter with the “New World.”
Thinking about race and racism is at the core of many subsequent questions that call for a new understanding of human beings and how to study them
Summary
This article briefly analyzes the implications of Lewis Gordon’s work on race, racism and disciplinarity in our field of inquiry, peace studies. Rooted in a philosophy of existence and using an Africana phenomenological analysis, Gordon’s study of antiblack racism brings to the forefront, rather than hides from, the role of human agency and responsibility in an ongoing praxis of freedom as a meaningconstituting activity in a world of relationships.
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