Forum: Gender, race, colonialism, and international practice theory

International practice theory (IPT) is now firmly established as a key theoretical and methodological framework for International Relations (IR), offering novel ways to address the oversight around the ‘everyday’ in global politics. Yet, the presumed novelty of such an approach is surprising to feminist, race, and postcolonial IR scholars who have thought deeply about the problem of the everyday. Surprisingly, these approaches have been footnotes (at best) in practice-oriented research. Despite the growth of IPT and its increasing influence within the discipline, it has remained perplexingly silent on issues related to gender, race, or colonialism. This Forum brings together an international range of scholars to address these silences. First, we are interested in exploring whether gender, race, and postcolonial scholarship offer relevant concepts, methodologies, theoretical contributions, or case studies that can inform IPT scholars. Second, we are interested in providing a space for scholars of gender and race to ‘speak back’ to IPT. Finally, what does the silencing of gender and race within IPT tell us about knowledge production within our discipline?