Sylla, N.S., Fischer, A.M., Kaltenbrunner, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-3519-5197 et al. (1 more author) (Cover date: July 2024) Global Reparations within Capitalism: Aspirations and Tensions in Contemporary Movements for Reparatory Justice. Development and Change, 55 (4). pp. 560-600. ISSN 0012-155X
Abstract
The idea of global reparations has received increasing attention in recent years, not only with respect to legacies of slavery and colonialism, but also to interrelated issues such as climate change, debt crisis, or ongoing financial transfers from the Global South to the Global North. This article, which introduces and sets the Debate for the 2024 Forum issue on the political economy of 21st century global reparations, offers a critical perspective on contemporary global reparations agendas, including their macroeconomic and development implications for the Global South. It highlights the contentious, unresolved questions about how reparations movements should interact with the highly unequal structures of global capitalism. To what degree should they seek large redistributive gains within these structures, or else aim for more revolutionary standpoints which reject these structures? If the former, would this compromise any hope for reparations to be truly transformative and able to address the challenges presented by global white supremacy? The hope of reparations movements is to make progressive gains that could become the catalyst for more transformative changes on a global scale. At the same time, sympathetic critics question whether reparations are feasible or should be a primary focus of advocacy for achieving racial and climate justice on national as well as global levels. In outlining these points of debate, the article also considers the questions of how to make global reparations work for recipients, and how to finance them. It concludes by elaborating on the challenge of moving towards a more developmentalist emphasis of ‘systemic reparations’.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Development and Change published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Institute of Social Studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2024 15:40 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2024 15:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/dech.12855 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219978 |