“…As Sankaran Krishna (2001) pointed out some years ago, it is only by assuming a systematic 'politics of forgetting' towards its racist and colonial foundations that international relations may sustain its legitimacy as an academic discipline. It is important to highlight that this 'politics of forgetting' enacts violent epistemicidal practices against subaltern peoples and their systems of knowledge (Fernández, 2019;Oliveira, 2019).…”