Introduction This chapter explores reparative possibilities in and through education, with a specific focus on reparative pedagogy. It does so by sharing examples I’ve encountered and by documenting many ongoing conversations around the possibilities and challenges of describing, designing and imagining pedagogy as reparative. These include conversations with friends, researchers, educators and activists, many (but not all) of which take place within the Education, Justice and Memory network (EdJAM). EdJAM exists to support and learn more about creative
The previous chapter discussed some of the more structural problems with how transitional justice (TJ) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) view and categorize the people that benefit from and participate in these mechanisms, and how that approach does not help to promote reconciliation and gendered transformation. This chapter looks at how Colombia’s reparation and reincorporation processes incorporate a gender perspective. It thus answers the first part of the question guiding this book: what are the gendered dynamics of current
87 FIVE Reparation and redress To provide ‘redress’ is to remedy or rectify a wrong. (Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 20131) In Chapter Three, we found that public inquiries have consistently identified harms or ‘wrongs’ experienced in care. In Chapter Four, we considered acknowledgements of these harms and that a crucial aspect of an apology is reparation. Indeed, acknowledgement and apology are parts of reparation, or redress, and are means of remedying or rectifying harms, as explained by the Australian Royal
PART III Education’s Reparative Possibilities: Responsibilities and Reckonings for Sustainable Futures
Introduction This chapter discusses the importance of historical thinking for futures-oriented policy in education. It proposes that a concept of ‘reparative futures’ can be a generative basis for knowledge and learning, not only in formal educational institutions, but in community organizations, workplaces and in all sites of cultural exchange. The idea of reparative futures signals a commitment to identify and recognize the injustices visited on, and experienced by, individuals and communities in the past. It understands that these past injustices, even
Atlantic universals’ ( Trouillot, 2021 : 142) of the citizen, the state, the human, determining who has the right to live and who will be left to die. That is to say, insofar as White supremacy and coloniality exploit and dispose of Black bodies as infrastructure for White self-reproduction , the evident ideals of state, citizenship and infrastructural citizenship must themselves be pried open as analytical fictions through insistent projects of reparative infrastructural justice. Infrastructure has an inherently uneven capacity to connect and to provide for some
peacebuilding mechanisms can address them ( Enloe 2000 ; Cockburn 2007 ; Buckley-Zistel and Zolkos 2012 ; O’Rourke 2013 ). In this book, I contribute empirical data to make sure that the implementation of gendered TJ policies responds to the everyday realities on the ground. This book shows and explains the problematic gap between theory and practice of gendered TJ and DDR. Using Colombia as a case study, I ask: what are the gendered dynamics of reparation and reintegration laws and policies on the ground and do they effectively transform structural gender inequality
255 FIFTEEN money as the measure of man: values and value in the politics of reparation* Claire Moon introduction This chapter addresses both ‘values’ and ‘value’ in reconciliatory political practices and looks in particular at the significance and meaning of reparative justice values and practices. These are often claimed to service the aims of political reconciliation, where reckoning with past state crimes is made central to transitions from authoritarianism to more democratic political orders, such as in Argentina, Chile and South Africa. This
serve as an entry point to reiterate the need for reparations that fix ongoing injustices and invite alternative futures that may serve more-than-human needs. Thus, the chapter first explores how conventional practices of citing create gendered, raced and myriad other inequalities in academia, and the sorts of reparative practices that are suggested by critical scholars. The later sections draw on moments in the works of scholars studying alongside Indigenous communities to argue for using post-human quotational practices that include human and non-human voices and
Recently, there has been a global resurgence of demands for the acknowledgement of historical and contemporary wrongs, as well as for apologies and reparation for harms suffered.
Drawing on the histories of injustice, dispossession and violence in South Africa, this book examines the cultural, political and legal role and value of an apology. It examines the multiple ways in which ‘sorry’ is instituted, articulated and performed, and critically analyses its various forms and functions in both historical and contemporary moments. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of contributors, the book’s analysis offers insights which will be invaluable to global debates on the struggle for justice.
