The Futures of Reparations in Latin America
Imagination, Translation, and Belonging
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The Futures of Reparations in Latin America is an edited collection that investigates how reparations—covering political violence, colonial dispossession, and environmental harm—shape imaginaries of the past and possible futures.
Through ethnographic case studies from Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Peru, the book foregrounds processes of translation, belonging, and political imagination in reparative practices.
Editors Di Giminiani, Risør, and Vanthuyne emphasize reparations as processual, intergenerational, and contested rather than a single compensatory event.
The volume argues reparations function as hope-generating machines that both challenge and reify state authority, and it highlights multi-scalar and multispecies approaches, including Indigenous perspectives on repair.
Positioned for students and scholars in anthropology, transitional justice, and Latin American studies, the book offers theoretical tools and concrete ethnographies to rethink reparation practices.
Through ethnographic case studies from Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Peru, the book foregrounds processes of translation, belonging, and political imagination in reparative practices.
Editors Di Giminiani, Risør, and Vanthuyne emphasize reparations as processual, intergenerational, and contested rather than a single compensatory event.
The volume argues reparations function as hope-generating machines that both challenge and reify state authority, and it highlights multi-scalar and multispecies approaches, including Indigenous perspectives on repair.
Positioned for students and scholars in anthropology, transitional justice, and Latin American studies, the book offers theoretical tools and concrete ethnographies to rethink reparation practices.
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Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
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