The Futures of Reparations in Latin America by Piergiorgio Di... - 9781978844391

The Futures of Reparations in Latin AmericaImagination, Translation, and Belonging\nAuthor(s): Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Helene Risr, Karine Vanthuyne\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978844391, 978-1978844391\nSynopsis\nOver the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military regimes, Indigenous and Afro-Latin groups affected by historical processes of dispossession, and citizens suffering from environmental harm. Reparations prompt us to face uncomfortable pasts and in so doing, create conditions for imagination of multiple futures. In representing the experiences and hopes of those affected by political violence in El Salvador and Argentina, environmental harm in Guatemala and Peru, and colonial dispossession in Chile and Bolivia, reparations are built upon conflictive forms of future imagination, translat.