Este trabajo versa sobre los reclamos actuales acerca de las reparaciones por los crímenes y los daños que la trata transatlántica de personas africanas y los sistemas eslavistas causaron a las Américas. Lanzado por numerosos actores en distintos contextos histórico-globales, constituye en la actualidad un tema central en la agenda del activismo afrodescendiente, sobre todo en el Caribe anglófono y en los EE. UU.; también se discute en América Latina, dentro del enfoque de afrorreparaciones. En este artículo se analiza la movilización por la causa en el Caribe anglófono, la agenda por una "justicia reparativa" proveniente de la Comisión de Reparaciones de CARICOM –compuesta principalmente por los países que eran colonias británicas– y la demanda que se dirige a los gobiernos europeos. A partir de una investigación empírica sobre el caso de Jamaica, en este texto se exponen los principales argumentos de los activistas a favor de la reparación, así como las áreas de su movilización: educación pública, trabajo de concientización y reconstrucción de archivos que evidencian los efectos económicos de la esclavitud. Luego se aborda la agencia de los activistas en las redes y los debates transnacionales. Por último, se reflexiona sobre los distintos acercamientos a la temática de la reparación desde un enfoque interregional, incluyendo una perspectiva desde del Caribe hispanoparlante: la de Cuba.
This paper deals with the current demands of compensation for the damages and crimes caused by the transatlantic slave trade of African persons and from the institution of slavery in the Americas. This proposal has been put forward by many actors and in different global historical contexts and it is currently is fundamental issue in the agenda of Afro-American activism, especially in the English- speaking Caribbean and in the United States. This topic is also under discussion in Latin America as a part of the "afro-reparations" approach. The article analyzes the mobilization around this issue in the English-speaking Caribbean, the "reparative justice" agenda put forward by the CARICOM Reparations Commission- mainly composed by former British colonies in the Caribbean-, and the demands directed against European governments. Using data collected in Jamaica, this text exposes the main arguments presented by advocates of reparations, as well the arenas where they have been more active: public education, awareness raising campaign and archival reconstruction of documentation evidencing the economic impact of slavery. Next, the activity of advocates in the social media and in transnational debates is discussed. Finally, consideration is given to the different approaches to the topic of reparations seen from an interregional perspective, focusing in viewpoints drawn from Cuba as a case representing the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. ; Este trabajo versa sobre los reclamos actuales acerca de las reparaciones por los crímenes y los daños que la trata transatlántica de personas africanas y los sistemas eslavistas causaron a las Américas. Lanzado por numerosos actores en distintos contextos histórico-globales, constituye en la actualidad un tema central en la agenda del activismo afrodescendiente, sobre todo en el Caribe anglófono y en los EE. UU.; también se discute en América Latina, dentro del enfoque de afrorreparaciones. En este artículo se analiza la movilización por la causa en el Caribe anglófono, la agenda por una "justicia reparativa" proveniente de la Comisión de Reparaciones de CARICOM –compuesta principalmente por los países que eran colonias británicas– y la demanda que se dirige a los gobiernos europeos. A partir de una investigación empírica sobre el caso de Jamaica, en este texto se exponen los principales argumentos de los activistas a favor de la reparación, así como las áreas de su movilización: educación pública, trabajo de concientización y reconstrucción de archivos que evidencian los efectos económicos de la esclavitud. Luego se aborda la agencia de los activistas en las redes y los debates transnacionales. Por último, se reflexiona sobre los distintos acercamientos a la temática de la reparación desde un enfoque interregional, incluyendo una perspectiva desde del Caribe hispanoparlante: la de Cuba. ; Este artigo trata das reivindicações atuais sobre indenizações pelos crimes e danos que o tráfico transatlântico de africanos e os sistemas escravocratas causaram às Américas. Lançado por vários atores em diferentes contextos histórico-globais, é atualmente uma questão central na agenda do ativismo afro-descendente, especialmente no Caribe de língua inglesa e nos Estados Unidos. Também é discutido na América Latina, dentro do foco das pré-reparações. Este artigo analisa a mobilização pela causa no Caribe de língua inglesa, a agenda por uma "justiça reparadora" vinda da Comissão de Reparações da CARICOM –composta principalmente pelos países que foram colônias britânicas– e a demanda dirigida aos governos europeus. A partir de uma pesquisa empírica sobre o caso da Jamaica, este texto apresenta os principais argumentos dos ativistas a favor da reparação, bem como as áreas de sua mobilização: educação pública, trabalho de conscientização e reconstrução de arquivos que evidenciam os efeitos econômicos da escravidão. Em seguida, aborda-se a agência de ativistas em redes transnacionais e debates. Finalmente, reflete sobre as diferentes abordagens do tema da reparação desde uma perspectiva inter-regional, incluindo uma perspectiva do Caribe de língua espanhola: a de Cuba.
Este trabajo versa sobre los reclamos actuales acerca de las reparaciones por los crímenes y los daños que la trata transatlántica de personas africanas y los sistemas eslavistas causaron a las Américas. Lanzado por numerosos actores en distintos contextos histórico-globales, constituye en la actualidad un tema central en la agenda del activismo afrodescendiente, sobre todo en el Caribe anglófono y en los EE. UU.; también se discute en América Latina, dentro del enfoque de afrorreparaciones. En este artículo se analiza la movilización por la causa en el Caribe anglófono, la agenda por una "justicia reparativa" proveniente de la Comisión de Reparaciones de CARICOM –compuesta principalmente por los países que eran colonias británicas– y la demanda que se dirige a los gobiernos europeos. ; This paper deals with the current demands of compensation for the damages and crimes caused by the transat- lantic slave trade of African persons and from the institution of slavery in the Americas. This proposal has been put forward by many actors and in different global historical contexts and it is currently is fundamental issue in the agenda of Afro-American activism, especially in the English-speaking Caribbean and in the United States. This topic is also under discussion in Latin America as a part of the "afro-reparations" approach. The article analyzes the mobilization around this issue in the English-speaking Caribbean, the "reparative justice" agenda put forward by the CARICOM Reparations Commission –mainly composed by former British colonies in the Caribbean–, and the demands directed against European governments.
In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent. In this volume, we address this dissonant cultural heritage in Europe, with a strong focus on the tangible remains of enslavement in the Atlantic space in the continent. This may concern, for instance, the residences of royal, noble, and bourgeois enslavers; charitable and cultural institutions, universities, banks, and insurance companies, financed by the traders and owners of enslaved Africans; merchants who dealt in sugar, coffee, and cotton; and the owners of factories who profited from exports to the African and Caribbean markets related to Atlantic slavery. ; In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent. In this volume, we address this dissonant cultural heritage in Europe, with a strong focus on the tangible remains of enslavement in the Atlantic space in the continent. This may concern, for instance, the residences of royal, noble, and bourgeois enslavers; charitable and cultural institutions, universities, banks, and insurance companies, financed by the traders and owners of enslaved Africans; merchants who dealt in sugar, coffee, and cotton; and the owners of factories who profited from exports to the African and Caribbean markets related to Atlantic slavery.
»Transatlantic Caribbean« widens the scope of research on the Caribbean by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa and by investigating long-term exchanges of people, practices and ideas. Based on innovative approaches and rich empirical research from anthropology, history and literary studies the contributions discuss border crossings, south-south relations and diasporas in the areas of popular culture, religion, historical memory as well as national and transnational social and political movements. These perspectives enrich the theoretical debates on transatlantic dialogues and the Black Atlantic and emphasize the Caribbean's central place in the world.
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The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...
The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...
The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...
The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...
