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This seminar will focus on the current movement for climate justice and its direct connection to the call for reparations in the Caribbean.

Required Readings

Beckles, Hilary. 'Irma-Maria: A Reparations Requiem for Caribbean Poverty', Campus News (University of West Indies: 2017)

Sealey-Huggins, Leon, '‘1.5oC to stay alive’: Climate change, imperialism and justice for the Caribbean', Third World Quarterly (2017)

Seminar Questions

1. How does the history of colonialism in the region relate to climate change?

2. What are the arguments to support reparations? What are the challenges?