TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bessone, Magali
T1  - From reparations for slavery to international racial justice: a critical republican perspective
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - This paper focuses on demands for reparations for colonial slavery and their public reception in France. It argues that this bottom-up, context-sensitive approach to theorising reparations enables us to formulate a critical republican theory of international racial justice. It contrasts the critical republican perspective on reparations with a nation-state centred approach in which reparations activists are accused of threatening the French republic’s sense of homogeneity and unity, thus undermining the national narrative on the French identity. It also rejects the liberal egalitarian perspective, which itself rejects reparations in favour of focusing on present disadvantages. In so doing, this paper illustrates how the notion of non-domination offers a superior way of conceptualising global racial injustices compared to more traditional distributive outlooks.
KW  - critical republicanism
KW  - France
KW  - non-domination
KW  - racial justice
KW  - reparations
KW  - slavery
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43230
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-432309
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
SP  - 178
EP  - 198
PB  - The Global Justice Network
CY  - [S.l]
ER  -