Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?

Mueller, Jason C.

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“…These have become existential. Thus, a fundamental critique of capitalism must include the demand for reparations to African people (Mueller 2023;Obeng-Odoom 2023). The 2022 Dakar Declaration puts this case forcefully (African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty Initiative 2022).…”

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Capitalism and the Legal Foundations of Global Reparations

Obeng-Odoom

2023

JLPE

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It is widely contended that Africans were complicit in enslaving other African people, that slavery was legal at the time it was in force and, hence, that demanding reparations from states can have no legal basis. Drawing on the work of Nora Wittmann, this essay questions these presumptions, advances the argument that there is a legal basis for reparations, and puts the case for grounding the legal approach within a wider political economy of reparations.

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Section: Introduction: Capitalism Slavery and Reparationsmentioning

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Capitalism and the Legal Foundations of Global Reparations

Obeng-Odoom

2023

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Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia

Mueller

2023

Review of African Political Economy

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Somalia is often referred to as a ‘failed state’. In addition to ineffective governance, feeble economic development, and a large anti-government insurgency, it faces increasingly severe climate change-induced devastation. This article offers a critical discussion of the role of capitalist interests and ideology as a factor in the climate crisis. It explores interlocking issues of (1) the relationship between the ruling political class of Somalia and capitalist mining interests; (2) the largely covert US-backed ‘war on terror’ in Somalia; and (3) the ongoing, capitalism-induced climate crisis. The article analyses current US and Somali proposals to address these issues. Many of these proposals remain trapped in the politico-ideological deadlock of capitalist developmentalism, oriented towards fossil fuel extraction and militarised accumulation. The trajectory of this current path in Somalia is leading to immiseration, oppression, displacement for millions of people, and the destruction of an already deteriorating environment. Alternative paths to avert these catastrophes require transnational solidarity, cooperation and assistance.

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The (Im)Possibility of Anti-Systemic Politics: Uprisings, Exilic Spaces, and Alain Badiou

Mueller

2024

Emancipations

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The world-system is in crisis, and a flurry of uprisings challenge the mantra that 'there is no alternative' to capitalism. However, some questions remain. What will replace the global capitalist mode of production, and how will those aspiring to transform the system do so? These questions are of relevance to three separate but related domains of research: (1) the study of anti-systemic movements by world-systems analysts; (2) the study of exilic spaces by scholars using an anarchist perspective; and (3) the work of French Philosopher Alain Badiou. This article stages a discussion between these three areas, locating areas in each tradition that can benefit from engagement with each other's work. It pays special attention to ways in which social scientific analyses of anti-capitalist and anti-State uprisings can expand their explanatory scope and answer some important theoretical questions, by incorporating key insights derived from Badiou's framework on politics, uprisings, and universality. Likewise, it shows how Badiouian literature might enrich and expand its conceptualization of these issues by engaging with world-systemic and anarchist literatures on the political, cultural, and intellectual aspects of strategizing for social change.

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Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Capitalism and the Legal Foundations of Global Reparations

Capitalism and the Legal Foundations of Global Reparations

Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia

The (Im)Possibility of Anti-Systemic Politics: Uprisings, Exilic Spaces, and Alain Badiou

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