This blog was created by eight university students in anthropology, development studies and geography as a project for the course on Race, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Condition, taught by Professor Nadia Fadil at KU Leuven. As we are an interdisciplinary group of students with many different interests, we chose to reflect our heterogeneity in the blog in an attempt to provide the reader with a wide variety of possible answers to the question of reparations.

 

We all had our own reasons for choosing reparation as the topic of our blog. Some have personal experiences with colonialism, war or other kinds of injustices. Others have become interested in the topic during previous studies or feel that there is an urgent need to open up the debate about reparations. 

 

The reader will find a variety of cases and research areas addressed in this blog. We have provided all the blog posts with a ‘top-down’ or ‘bottom-up’ label to distinguish between the different kinds of answers given by different actors to the question of reparations. We advise you to first read the home page to get a general idea of the theme of the blog. Then you can read the posts of your liking in whatever order you wish. The posts are written so that they can be read as autonomous pieces. It is however recommended to read several posts from different categories in order to grasp the variety and diversity of approaches to reparation better.