An interdisciplinary approach to fundamentally reordering the structures of colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism

Table of contents

Table of Contents

List of Images
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Elise Klein, Rachel Hughes, and Erin Fitz-Henry
Part 1 - Conceptual articulations of reparations as worldmaking
Chapter 1: On reparation, worldmaking and remaking 
Elise Klein, Rachel Hughes, and Erin Fitz-Henry
Chapter 2: Reparations, capital and the limits of transformation
Elise Klein
Chapter 3: The pluriverse as a pathway beyond the systemic crisis:
Exploring reparations and abolition in the context of alternative worldmaking
Marta Musić
Chapter 4: Debts and reparations: A case for social movements
Nnimmo Bassey, Mama Efia, Raphael Hoetmer, Miriam Lang, Aissatou Keita, Ulrich Brand, Ivonne Yanez, Mary Ann Manahan, Giorgos Velagrakis, Larry Lohmann, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos, Ibrahima Thiam, Samantha Hargreaves, Madhuresh Kumar, John Feffer, Edgardo Lander,  Mauro Castro,  Michaela Stith, Beverly Keene, Glenda Palacios,  Elise Klein, Mae Buenaventura, Dorothy Guerrero, Kandi White, Kali Akuno, and Thaddeus Monroe
Chapter 5: Red Threads to Anticolonial Reparations and Trans*formation
Tjasa Kancler
Part 2 – Reparative Worldmaking in Place and Practice
Chapter 6: Reparations for the Palestinian People as Worldmaking
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Chapter 7: Repair by Relation: Reimagining Geographies of Repair 
Zaira Simone-Thompson
Chapter 8: Living Worldmaking Reparations: An interview with Mama Efia Nwangaza
Mama Efia Nwangaza
Chapter 9: Stolen Generation Reparations in the State of Victoria, Australia
Ian Hamm 
Chapter 10: From the ‘Rights of Nature’ to Reparations for Colonialism: Confronting the ‘Double Fracture’
Erin Fitz-Henry
Chapter 11: The struggle for the Yasuní in Ecuador: Exploring multifaceted pathways of reparations in the pluriverse
Miriam Lang
Chapter 12: Enough: On Cultivating Material Care Now
Lucy Benjamin and Hélène Frichot
Chapter 13: Conclusion
Erin Fitz-Henry and Elise Klein
Author Bios

Description

Reparations are not only about money, legal remedy, or moral repair. They are about the radical reimagining and remaking of a world still deeply scarred by colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. Bringing together scholars, activists, and practitioners from across the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, Australia, and beyond, Reparation and World Remaking asks what genuinely transformative reparations might look like—and shows that, in many places, they are already underway.

Drawing on theorizations from Indigenous, Black, feminist, First Nations, and critical antipodean traditions, the volume extends reparative thinking by attending to the contributions of scholars of decoloniality, post-development, abolition, feminism, community economies, and environmental and climate justice. Reparation and World Remaking illuminates the many ways world remaking reparations are already being envisioned and enacted, in communities and movements across the globe.

Elise Klein is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University.

Erin Fitz-Henry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne.

Rachel Hughes is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne.