Time for reparations : a global perspective /
Past state injustice has enduring consequences and the harm needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity. Time for Reparations offers detailed case studies of state injustices--from slavery to forced sterilization to widespread atrocities--and interdisciplinary perspectives on the potenti...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Albie Sachs
- Introduction / Jacqueline Bhabha
- Part I. Addressing the legacy of slavery
- 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
- Part II. Reparations : precedents and lessons learned
- 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 Guatemala / Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj and Aileen Ford
- 10. Colonial history at court : legal decisions and their social dilemmas / Nicole L. Immler
- Part III. Outstanding issues : unrepaired state-sponsored collective injustice
- 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
- Part IV. Ways forward for reparations
- 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
- Postscript / Mary T. Bassett
- Notes
- List of contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgements.