Objective
Reparations for the enslavement and colonization of African peoples is fast becoming one of the most important issues of our time. Yet their meaning is poorly understood as financial compensation. Re-PAIR will provide a unique transnational and ethnographic study of the Pan-African network of social movements and initiatives that understand reparations not as a ‘paycheque’ but as a process of cultural and spiritual healing grounded in African Indigenous practices. It asks: what does it mean to repair the transgenerational damage inflicted upon African peoples; what African-centred reparatory models exist or are being created by affected communities; and how can examples from these communities challenge the way we think about reparations? Re-PAIR responds by providing a geographically ambitious account of how Africans on the continent and descendants living in the Diaspora are engaging in acts of self-repair—‘Rematriation’—by revalorizing African Indigenous cultures, spiritualities and ecological and pedagogic practices after centuries of epistemicide (or the killing of knowledge). Based on comparative case studies drawn from all three points of the ‘transatlantic triangle’—West Africa (Benin, Ghana), the Caribbean (Guianas, Belize) and Europe (France, UK)—it will substantially advance thinking on reparations by introducing the holistic concept of Pan-African Indigenous Repairs (Re-PAIRs) that sees reparations as inseparable from cultural, spiritual and environmental repair. This will include developing an innovative reparatory methodology centred on cognitive justice, or the equity of all knowledges, that will redefine the conventional boundaries between academic scholarship and community-based action research. The results will not only decentre and disrupt Euro-centric capitalist models of reparation but will show how the revalorization of African Indigeneity is creating an innovative praxis and theory of repair to address both racial and environmental injustices.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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L69 7ZX LIVERPOOL
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