Open AccessIntroduction
Author(s) -
Michael Warren Murphy,
Jackie Smith,
Patrick Manning,
Ruth Mostern
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of world-systems research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1076-156X
DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.2020.1011
Subject(s) - witness , resistance (ecology) , politics , hegemony , restitution , work (physics) , political science , accountability , political economy , sociology , law and economics , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , biology
Work for reparations requires interventions by world historians to bear witness to the brutalities of the past as part of a process that seeks truth and reconciliation, along with some measure of accountability and restitution. Shifting our lens to encompass world history exposes the varied effects of slavery and the slave trade, and it allows us to interrogate national boundaries and hegemonic histories. It also makes visible the myriad forms of resistance to the capitalist world-system, nurturing the radical imagination of alternatives. We discuss work in the United Nations and other global political spaces to advance demands for reparations and introduce contributions to this symposium.