Reconsidering Reparations – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Reconsidering Reparations – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Development for Some, Disaster for Others: The Case for Reparations https://lpeproject.org/blog/development-for-some-disaster-for-others-the-case-for-reparations/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=8319 This post is part of a symposium on Reconsidering Reparations. Read the rest of the posts here. *** At the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, the issue of reparations was brought front and center by nations of the Global South. Northern nations, they argued, have contributed vastly more than their fair share of carbon emissions and should compensate nations that are negatively impacted...

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]]> What Will Worldmaking Require? https://lpeproject.org/blog/what-will-worldmaking-require/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=8304 This post is part of a symposium on Reconsidering Reparations. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations powerfully connects two urgent projects: rectification of the injustices of the “global racial empire” and response to the ongoing climate crisis. Táíwò observes that people are “usually surprised” by this conjunction. To most, the legacy of colonialism...

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]]> Reconsidering the Future https://lpeproject.org/blog/reconsidering-the-future/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=8268 Reconsidering Reparations offers several sound policy proposals about how to pursue reparations and climate justice. Yet its main contribution to the realm of climate politics has little to do with policy. Rather, it’s about a way of situating oneself in historical time. Unlike ordinary philosophical parables that freeze time and abstract away from specific places (think of the “trolley problem” or the “veil of ignorance”), Táíwò is arguing that the big picture is always historical, and always spatially complex. This shift in orientation will change how we see environmental or climate issues, but it will also change how we see much else.]]> This post is part of a symposium on Reconsidering Reparations. Read the rest of the posts here. *** In Reconsidering Reparations, the philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò makes an extraordinary intellectual pivot. In a book motivated by the historic injustice of colonialism, analyzed in conversation with contemporary political theory, and animated by vignettes of the anti-colonial Malê revolt in Brazil...

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]]> Reconsidering Reparations https://lpeproject.org/blog/reconsidering-reparations/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=8301 Reconsidering Reparations argues for two things. First, reparations for trans-Atlantic slavery and colonialism should be seen as a future-oriented project engaged in building a just social order. Second, if we accept that view, then reparations and the struggle for racial justice should be directly linked to the struggle for climate justice.]]> This post introduces a symposium on Reconsidering Reparations. Read the rest of the posts here *** For better or worse, our world stands on the precipice of major changes. Our current energy system is driving a rapidly unfolding climate crisis, and the need for total transformation “at every level of society” is now the prevailing scientific opinion. Given this context...

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