New REPAIR lecture recording: Reparative Grammar

The limits of contemporary reparations discourse lie not only in its political and economic formulations but also in its grammar. The prevailing grammar of to repair organizes reparations through the logic of injury, in which harm authorizes recognition and justice is rendered as compensation. In this talk, Jovan Scott Lewis - Professor of Geography at the UC Berkeley whose research examines Black geographies, racial capitalism, and reparations in the US and the Caribbean - advocated for a shift from to repair toward repair to: A reparative practice grounded in place and oriented by collective life, in which repair is practiced through the making and maintenance of relation rather than just the settlement of accounts.

You can find the lecture recording here:

https://www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/reparativegrammar