GBSS '23 / "Relational Repair - Black life beyond injury", with Jovan Scott Lewis

In this Global Blackness Summer School session, Jovan Scott Lewis and RGC Director Victoria Collis-Buthelezi reflect on relational repair and the political possibility of Black life beyond injury (29 November 2023, LAPA, Johannesburg).
"In our political present, shaped by the insurgent recognition of the consequences of antiblackness following the murder of George Floyd, but whose influence is quickly expiring, Jovan Scott Lewis examines the possibilities for Black reparations. Thinking from what he identifies as our reparative conjuncture, Jovan's new research addresses the societal and ethical limitations of what kind of reparations this moment can produce. Recognizing that the harms against Black people are generally harms to their relations, he suggests a relational framework of reparation. In doing so, Jovan encourages resisting Blackness’ principal formulation through (studying) antiblack violence and its related practices of resistance and offers a formula for repair beyond the terms of Black injury."
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