1st Edition

Rethinking North–South Discourses Reparations and Historical Injustice

Edited By Bianca Sola Claudio, Filipe Campello Copyright 2026
206 Pages
by Routledge

This book challenges the asymmetries in dialogues between the Global South and Global North. The book considers how the literature on reparative politics in itself often perpetuates Western-centric models which risk leading to paternalistic approaches, as well as undermining the agency of thinkers, activists, and victims within the Global South. Encouraging a dialogue between the Global North... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction
Bianca Sola Claudio & Filipe Campello


Part I: Rethinking Epistemic Perspectives from the Global South

Chapter 2: The Political-Cultural Category of Amefricanity
Lélia Gonzalez (translation Bianca Sola Claudio)

Chapter 3: Thinking After Gaza
Vladimir Safatle

Chapter 4: Epistemic restitution and the South African Black Consciousness Movement
George Hull


Part II: Working through the past in academic instituions

Chapter 5: Teaching as Memory Making: Conceptualising Critical University Pedagogy in the Wake of #RhodesMustFall
Daniel James & Franz Knappik

 

Chapter 6: Seeking structural transformation beyond individual repair: Women’s human rights as a reparative legal category
Mariana Prandini Assis

 

 

Part III: Affirmative Action and Structural Change

Chapter 7: Justifying reparations against brahminism/casteism and European imperialism in South Asia
Gajendran Ayyathurai

Chapter 8:  Reparation beyond Responsibility
Pablo Holmes

Biography

Bianca Sola Claudio is completing her PhD at University of Cologne, Germany, where she also teaches a seminar on Migration. She was until recently Research Group Leader at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre, Germany and now runs Refugium, a centre for migration research and knowledge transfer in Basel, Switzerland.

Filipe Campello is Research Fellow at National Council for Scientific Research (CNPq) in Brazil. He is also Director at the Center for Ethics and Political Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He was formerly Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen and University of Perugia, and a Senior research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.