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The Futures of Reparations in Latin America
Imagination, Translation, and Belonging
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2026
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Over 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, translation of harm and new forms of belonging to and beyond the nation state, which reifies as much as challenges state authority over the promises of actual repair. In today’s Latin American political debate, hopes for justice and democracy remain anchored to the question of the kinds of future that can be imagined through and after reparation.
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Contents
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Introduction: The Futures of Reparations in Latin America
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1 On Insurgent Knowledge and Affiliative Powers: Human Rights Violations, Civil Society Archives, and Forms of Repair
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2 Memory Caught in the Everyday: A Case of a Salvadoran Reparation Ethnography
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3 Being Repaired: Reparations and Remediations in Peru
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4 “Here? Justice?”: Enacting Repair on the Boundaries of Justice in Argentina
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5 Indigenous Belongings as Precarious: An Ethnography of Reparation Activism for Mine-Caused Damages in Guatemala
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6 Indigenous Reparations in Plurinational Bolivia: Entanglement, Hopefulness, and Restorative Futures
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7 Engendering Repair: Mapuche Women Elders’ Life Histories, Violence, and the Future
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8 Involuntary Resettlement Resulting from Mining Operations in Peru: The Illusion of Commensuration, State Responsibility, and Corporate Reparations
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Afterword: The Politics of Reparations
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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February 10, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9781978844414
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eBook ISBN:
9781978844414
Keywords for this book
reparations; Latin America; transitional justice; political violence; Indigenous rights; Afro-Latin communities; environmental harm; historical dispossession; future justice; democratic coexistence; memory and reparations; human rights; social belonging; state authority; symbolic acts of repair; reparation activism; plural national identities; nation state; civil society; restorative futures; El Salvador; Argentina; Guatemala; Peru; Chile; Bolivia; Mapuche; mining resettlement; industrial disasters; ethnography; cultural memory; justice and democracy; reparation policy; translation of harm; imagined futures; social transformation; insurgent knowledge; archival justice; feminist perspectives; environmental justice; post-conflict societies.; Genocide; Genocide; Political Violence; Human Rights; The Futures of Reparations in Latin America; Imagination; Translation; and Belonging
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
