This talk explores the possibility of reparative frameworks in and through education systems – particularly in relation to racial and classed injustices. The idea of reparation requires us to understand the interconnections between past, present and future in both the formation of injustice and its repair. Arguably, until injustices are actively addressed, they can endure in social institutions – such as education – which also shape lives-to-come. But what does reparation in education look like? In this seminar I share insights from a five-year participatory research project – Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) – which seeks to explore this very question, focusing on the city of Bristol, England and its histories and geographies of race-class inequality.

Speaker

Arathi Sriprakash is Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Oxford. She is co-author of Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State. Her current research examines reparations and reparative justice in education. Learn more at: www.repair-ed.uk

How to attend

Date : Monday, 14th of July, 2025

Time : 1pm CET

Place: University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus B/C, 5th Floor, Anthropology Common Room (B5.12)

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The REPAIR lectures

The REPAIR lectures are an interdisciplinary lecture series on contemporary reparations demands and policies around the globe. They are given by leading reparations experts and investigate how reparations claims and policies come about, how they play out from a political, economic and moral perspective, and what they may teach us about politics and economics today. The lectures are hosted by the REPAIR project, based at the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). They are co-sponsored by the UvA’s Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS).