Time for Reparations : : A Global Perspective /

Time for Reparations : : A Global Perspective / / ed. by Jacqueline Bhabha, Caroline Elkins, Margareta Matache.

In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Bassett, Mary T.,
Beckles, Sir Hilary,
Bhabha, Jacqueline,
Conley, Bridget,
Elkins, Caroline,
Fischbach, Michael R.,
Ford, Aileen,
France, Mireille Fanon Mendes,
Frivet, Joanna,
Hancock, Ian,
Immler, Nicole L.,
Johnson, Douglas A.,
Khalidi, Rashid,
Matache, Margareta,
Miles, Tiya,
Mutua, Makau,
Nimatuj, Irma A. Velásquez,
Ocampo, Luis Moreno,
Pham, Phuong,
Rothman, Adam,
Sachs, Albie,
Samuels, Bert S.,
Sikkink, Kathryn,
Slyomovics, Susan,
Vinck, Patrick,
Waal, Alex De,
HerausgeberIn:
Bhabha, Jacqueline,
Elkins, Caroline,
Matache, Margareta,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART I. ADDRESSING THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY
  • 1. Reparations for Slavery: A Productive Strategy?
  • 2. Slavery, Universities, and Reparations
  • 3. “ Free Citizens of This Nation”: Cherokee Slavery, Descendants of Freedpeople, and Possibilities for Repair
  • 4. The Jamaican Case for Reparations Against the British Government for Slavery and Colonization
  • 5. The University and Slavery: Reflections upon the History and Future of the University of the West Indies
  • 6. French Justice and the Claims for Reparations by Slave Descendants in Guadeloupe
  • PART II. REPARATIONS: PRECEDENTS AND LESSONS LEARNED
  • 7. History on Trial: Mau Mau Reparations and the High Court of Justice
  • 8. A Critical Assessment of Colombia’s Reparations Policies in the Context of the Peace Process
  • 9. Justice Beyond the Final Verdict: The Role of Court- Ordered Reparations in the Struggle for Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights in Guatemala
  • 10. Colonial History at Court: Legal Decisions and Their Social Dilemmas
  • PART III. OUTSTANDING ISSUES: UNREPAIRED STATE- SPONSORED COLLECTIVE INJUSTICE
  • 11. Unhealed Wounds of World War I: Armenia, Kurdistan, and Palestine
  • 12. Nakba Denial: Israeli Resistance to Palestinian Refugee Reparations
  • 13. Repairing Colonial Symmetry: Algerian Archive Restitution As Reparation for Crimes of Colonialism?
  • 14. The Romani Genocide During the Holocaust: Resistance and Restitution
  • PART IV. WAYS FORWARD FOR REPARATIONS
  • 15. The Roma Case for Reparations
  • 16. What Justice for Starvation Crimes?
  • 17. Stopping the Crimes While Repairing the Victims: Personal Reflections of a Global Prosecutor
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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