Counter-Narratives of Belonging: Rastafari in the Promised Land

Gomes, Shelene

doi:10.2979/globalsouth.12.1.07

The Global South

2018

DOI: 10.2979/globalsouth.12.1.07

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Counter-Narratives of Belonging: Rastafari in the Promised Land

Shelene Gomes¹

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The Knife is Still in Our Backs: Reparations Washing and the Limits of Reparatory Justice Campaigns

Andrews

2024

Development and Change

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The Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 has placed reparations firmly on the international agenda. This article discusses the concept of ‘reparations washing’ with reference to the measures of two British businesses, Greene King and Lloyd's of London, in acknowledgement of their historical roots in the slave trade, and the Government of the Netherlands’ public apology for the country's history of slavery. Reparations washing occurs when corporations or governments give a token nod to reparatory justice to enhance their image and to absolve them of institutional guilt. The article employs Malcolm X's metaphor of slavery, as sticking a knife into the back of the enslaved, to argue that in order to repair the harm caused, the knife needs to be removed and the wound healed. It then analyses the reparations demands contained in CARICOM's Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice which exposes the limits of reparatory justice campaigns. The paradox of reparations campaigns is that they ultimately leave intact a system founded on White supremacy and the exploitation of the Global South. It is therefore impossible for reparations to be realized without bringing an end to the current political and economic system. The article concludes that, ultimately, the value of reparations campaigns lies in their highlighting the need for revolution.

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The Knife is Still in Our Backs: Reparations Washing and the Limits of Reparatory Justice Campaigns

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2024

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Notes on a Rastafari Yard-Space in Urban Ethiopia

Gomes

2020

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The significance of the yard or household in social reproduction within the diasporic Caribbean is the focus of this essay. I outline how a Rastafari yard-space is shaped through household production and family formation among diasporic Caribbean peoples within intercultural households and families. This discussion is foregrounded in Rastafari migration or “repatriation” from the Caribbean to the symbolic land grant in Ethiopia. Two intercultural households will be compared: one located in a local Ethiopian neighbourhood in the city of Shashamane and one in the predominantly Rastafari Jamaica Safar or Jamaica neighbourhood of Shashamane. Primarily drawing on my ethnographic observations, this discussion will situate Rastafari positionalities in terms of social, spatial and subjective articulations of inclusion and exclusion, adding to a discussion of the culture concept in the anthropology of the Caribbean.

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Counter-Narratives of Belonging: Rastafari in the Promised Land

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The Knife is Still in Our Backs: Reparations Washing and the Limits of Reparatory Justice Campaigns

The Knife is Still in Our Backs: Reparations Washing and the Limits of Reparatory Justice Campaigns

Notes on a Rastafari Yard-Space in Urban Ethiopia

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