New Books in Political Science Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Mar 20, 2026
Karine Vanthuyne, anthropology professor specializing in memory and Indigenous mobilization. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, associate professor focused on land claims and political imagination. Helene Risør, researcher of violence, reparations, and democratization. They explore reparations as ongoing practices, contested translations of harm into policy, imagination of alternative futures, Indigenous environmental claims, and public memory and protest.
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Reparations Are Ongoing Future Making
- Reparations are processual practices that imagine multiple futures rather than one-off payouts.
- The editors contrast state-centered lump-sum remediation with long intergenerational, contested processes that keep past harms open.
Repair As A Way Of Living With Damage
- Reparation can be read as a way of living in a damaged world, not a discrete event to be closed by the state.
- Helene Risør emphasizes intergenerational and cross-community practices that sustain everyday coexistence with damage.
Imagination Reconfigures Memory And Democracy
- Imagination in reparations mobilizes concrete practices like arts, archives, and monetary calculations to reconfigure historical narratives.
- Piergiorgio shows imagination works backward and forward, linking memory production to democratic aspirations.
