Abstract

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.

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