Time for reparations a global perspective

1. Reparations for slavery : a productive strategy? / Makau Mutua -- 2. Slavery, universities, and reparations / Adam Rothman -- 3. "Free citizens of this nation" : Cherokee slavery, descendants of freedpeople, and possibilities for repair / Tiya Miles -- 4. The Jamaican case for reparati...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bhabha, Jacqueline (HerausgeberIn), Matache, Margareta (HerausgeberIn), Elkins, Caroline (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, PENN 2021
Schriftenreihe:Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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Zusammenfassung:1. Reparations for slavery : a productive strategy? / Makau Mutua -- 2. Slavery, universities, and reparations / Adam Rothman -- 3. "Free citizens of this nation" : Cherokee slavery, descendants of freedpeople, and possibilities for repair / Tiya Miles -- 4. The Jamaican case for reparations against the British government for slavery and colonization / Bert S. Samuels -- 5. The university and slavery : reflections upon the history and future of the University of the West Indies / Sir Hilary Beckles -- 6. French justice and the claims for reparations by slave descendants in Guadeloupe / Mireille Fanon Mendes France -- 7. History on trial : Mau Mau reparations and the High Court of Justice / Caroline Elkins -- 8. A critical assessment of Colombia's reparations policies in the context of the peace process / Kathryn Sikkink, Douglas A. Johnson, Phuong Pham, and Patrick Vinck -- 9. Justice beyond the final verdict : the role of court-ordered reparations in the struggle for indigenous peoples' human rights in GuatemalaI / Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj and Aileen Ford -- 10. Colonial History at court : legal decisions and their social dilemmas / Nicole L. Immler -- 11. Unhealed wounds of World War I : Armenia, Kurdistan, and Palestine / Rashid Khalidi -- 12. Nakba denial : Israeli resistance to Palestinian refugee reparations / Michael R. Fischbach -- 13. Repairing colonial symmetry : Algerian archive restitution as reparation for crimes of colonialism? / Susan Slyomovics -- 14. The Romani genocide during the Holocaust : resistance and restitution / Ian Hancock -- 15. The Roma case for reparations / Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha -- 16. What justice for starvation crimes? / Alex de Waal and Bridget Conley -- 17. Stopping the crimes while repairing the victims : personal reflections of a global prosecutor / Luis Moreno Ocampo with the collaboration of Joanna Frivet.
"Our main argument throughout this volume is that the traces carved by unrepaired past injustice endure in the political, social, and economic arrangements bequeathed to the present and future: the systems for transmission of property, wealth, status, authority, power. The volume bridges individual cases, discrete histories, and different regions to generate a multinational and multidisciplinary engagement with questions of reparations"--
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Beschreibung:xiii, 396 Seiten
ISBN:9780812253306
978-0-8122-5330-6
9780812225044
978-0-8122-2504-4