Summary
Planet Repairs is a reparations framework that joins three kinds of justice – reparatory, environmental and cognitive – holding that enslavement, colonialism and ecological breakdown are one history of harm needing one repair. It comes out of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations. Its working definition is by Esther Stanford-Xosei, of the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, and Dr Nicola Frith, who call for repairing “our relationship with, and inseparability from, the earth, environment and the pluriverse”.
It is a political programme before it is a concept. It asks first for a stop to present harms, then for repair: restored sovereignty, redistributed wealth and due recognition of Indigenous knowledges.
Rationale
Part 1 describes a disposition of separation. This movement gives it a history, tying the split between humanity and nature to enslavement and colonialism, and demands redress – a claim our articles don’t make.