Sustainability and Social Justice
(Re)thinking material and epistemic futures: Caribbean reparations, development, and education
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In this conceptual paper, we envision new development possibilities for the Anglophone Caribbean through reparations for the legacies of chattel slavery, indigenous dispossession, extractive capitalism, and their significance to the making of capitalist modernity. We lay out the development paradigm’s historical geometries, including the violence of colonialism, extractive and racial capitalism, and the resultant material and epistemic effects. Using reparation as our core conceptual frame, we suggest how reforming the aid system and asserting the right to epistemic autonomy serve as two pathways to changing the contemporary development trajectories of Caribbean societies. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Publication Title
Race Ethnicity and Education
Publication Date
5-2023
ISSN
1361-3324
DOI
10.1080/13613324.2023.2217088
Keywords
Caribbean development, education, epistemic violence, extractive capitalism, racial capitalism, Reparations
Repository Citation
Brissett, Nigel O.M. and Jules, Tavis D., "(Re)thinking material and epistemic futures: Caribbean reparations, development, and education" (2023). Sustainability and Social Justice. 549.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/549