Reparations

Both of the books reviewed here provide deep analysis regarding the challenges of repairing historical mass crimes and past harmful policies, as well as the limitations and difficulties of such endeavors. They are important contributions not just to the general debate on reparations, but more specifically to the application of these debates to the topic of reparations for Africa. Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries , a compilation edited by Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar, attempts a comprehensive overview of reparations for historical and mass human rights violations. It encompasses the interesting debate on the search for a political theory that justifies reparations; presents the limitations of the notions behind this search; and provides arguments to help define who might be entitled to reparations, who might be responsible for paying reparations and what reparations might include. In the more recent Reparations to Africa , Rhoda Howard-Hassmann localizes some of these debates and provides

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• The paradoxes of colonial reparation

  Open Access•Chiara De Cesari•Memory Studies•2012

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