Reparations are a worldmaking project rather than a penalty for past injustice

Evidence

How should we think of reparations? Not as penalty for past injustice, but as “a worldmaking project,” steered by a “constructive view … geared more toward collective needs than toward accumulation.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 366

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties to the reader’s interest in theory’s definitional moves.
• XREF: This constructive framing of reparations relates to the reader’s graft/care orientation and to Jamesonian utopian thinking. — connects to: Victimhood and reparation demands function as leverage in soft diplomacy, not genuine settlement — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1242