Reparations Research Cluster
The cluster exists to build collaboration across disciplines and faculties at Sussex, among scholars researching reparations, and concerned with the practice of reparative history and reparative social science. It brings together scholars working on reparations from a range of disciplinary and regional perspectives - including but not limited to: reparative responses to colonialism; reparations for the transatlantic trade in enslaved people; reparations and ecological repair in land reform; archival and documentary and artefactual restitution and reparation; and reparations as a component of development and climate finance. The cluster also acts as a hub to connect Sussex researchers with a network of external colleagues sharing the same research agenda.
Sussex Members
Dr. Santiago Ripoll
Dr. Erica Nelson
External Members
Dr. Siviwe Shwababa
Publications
2026
- Evans, M. (2026). Socio-economic rights. In Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Peace (pp. 350-352). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781035310647.00113
Chapter. View on figshare. - Bhambra, G. K., & Holmwood, J. (2026). Rethinking conceptual frameworks: A response to Martyn Hammersley. Journal of Classical Sociology, 26(2), 154-162. doi:10.1177/1468795X251343019
Article. View online. - Bhambra, G., Demir, I., Khoo, S. -M., Gilbert, P., & Mayblin, L. (2026). The Modern World After Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciences. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. doi:10.51952/9781529252149
Book. View on figshare. - Gilbert, P. (2026). Understanding the Colonial Global Economy. In The Modern World after Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciences (pp. pages). Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. doi:10.56687/9781529252149-005
Chapter. View on figshare. - Andrews, N., Ferris, K., & Kufakurinani, U. (2026). Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South. Historical Journal, 69(1), 221-244. doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101015
Article. View online. - Bhambra, G. K. (2026). Colonialism. (pp. 1-4). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-06918-4_165-1
Other. View online.
2025
- McGregor, J., Alikhan, M., Masimba, G., Omer, A., & Collyer, M. (2025). Evictability—a relational comparison: fears, manoeuvres and regimes of housing insecurity in rapidly urbanising cities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, pages. doi:10.1111/tran.70053
Article. View on figshare. - Odysseos, L. (2025). Against archival abjection: Black annotation and critical fabulation as aesthetic-poetic interventions into the violence of the archive. Global Studies Quarterly, 5(3), pages. doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksaf081
Article. View on figshare. - Gilbert, P., & Taylor, O. (2025). Following money, mapping ‘development’: the opaque geographies of UK aid flows across the outsourcing assemblage. Geoforum, 166, pages. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104415
Article. View on figshare. - Edwards, M., Gilbert, P., & Malinen, F. J. (2025). Openness & democracy in local government: making financial information accessible. Research for Action.
Reports and working papers. View on figshare. - Odysseos, L., & Vij, R. (2025). Precarity: poetic and aesthetic explorations. Global Studies Quarterly, 5(3), pages. doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksaf087
Article. View on figshare. - Coleman, L. M., Müllenbach Martínez, H., & Wise, L. (2025). Reparation for extractivist genocide: harm, responsibility and implications for a just transition. The International Journal of Human Rights, pages. doi:10.1080/13642987.2025.2519583
Article. View on figshare. - Lester, A. (2025). Inquiring into Empire: Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833 [Book Review]. Australian Historical Studies, 56(3), 566-567. doi:10.1080/1031461x.2025.2521902
Article. View on figshare. - Gilbert, P. (2025). Metaphors of underdevelopment. BIM: ARTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, 12, pages.
Article. View on figshare. - Corble, A. (2025). Tricontinental territories of anticolonial knowledge production and liberatory library learning. In Teaching with Tricontinental: A sourcebook for students working with radical periodicals (pp. pages). Brighton, UK: Open Press University of Sussex. doi:10.20919/ytyy1915/2
Chapter. View on figshare. - Millum, D., & Gilbert, P. (Eds.) (2025). Teaching with Tricontinental: A sourcebook for students working with radical periodicals. Open Press University of Sussex. doi:10.20919/ytyy1915
Book. View online. - Gilbert, P. (2025). Introduction: Teaching with radical periodicals and primary sources. In Teaching with Tricontinental: A sourcebook for students working with radical periodicals. Open Press University of Sussex. doi:10.20919/ytyy1915/1
Chapter. View online. - Ewen, M. (2025). Barbary Newton's archive: women and enslavement in seventeenth-century Barbados and England. The William and Mary Quarterly, 82(2), 205-236. doi:10.1353/wmq.2025.a957885
Article. View on figshare. - Bhambra, G. (2025). Empires, famine, and the significance of the political economy of colonialism: from the Mughal Empire to British colonial rule in India. European Journal of Sociology, 1-24. doi:10.1017/s0003975625000050
Article. View on figshare. - by Danny Millum and Paul Gilbert, E. (2025). Supplementary resources for: Teaching with <i>Tricontinental</i>: A sourcebook for students working with radical periodicals. Brighton, UK: University of Sussex.
Book. View on figshare. - Evans, M. (n.d.). Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence on ‘Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Transitional Justice’. Geneva: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Reports and working papers. View on figshare. - McGregor, J., Stylianou, N., & Shiweda, N. (2025). Decolonial futures for African collections: making connections and the quest for repair. Third Text, pages. doi:10.1080/09528822.2025.2450917
Article. View on figshare. - Wise, L. (2025). Genocide. In Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations (pp. 143-144). doi:10.4337/9781035312283.00068
Chapter. View online. - Bhambra, G. K., Hall, C., & Radcliffe, S. A. (2025). Coming to terms with racial capitalism. Journal of the British Academy, 13(2). doi:10.5871/jba/013.a22
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2024
- Taylor, O., & Gilbert, P. (2024). Mapping the ‘business of development’: the geography of UK for-profit development contractors. Finance and Space, 1(1), pages. doi:10.1080/2833115X.2024.2430180
Article. View on figshare. - Gilbert, P. (2024). Does forgetting make markets? Historical silence in the political risk insurance market. In Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action (pp. pages). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009413961
Chapter. View on figshare. - Qugana, H. (2024). Fond Hopes and Vital Needs: Abiva Publishing, the UN, and the Philippines' Internationalist Moment. In Educational Internationalism in the Cold War (pp. 210-226). London, UK: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003247814-17
Chapter. View on figshare. - Bourne, C., Haiven, M., Montgomerie, J., Gilbert, P., Guerisoli, E., Mandirola, S., . . . Abdul Rahman, S. (2024). [Edited Special Journal Issue] Financial Capital and Ghosts of Empire. Journal of Cultural Economy, 17(4), pages.
Edited Special Journal Issue. View on figshare. - Odysseos, L. (2024). After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the ‘undared shape’. The International Journal of Human Rights, 28(8-9), 1-28. doi:10.1080/13642987.2023.2227101
Article. View on figshare. - Gilbert, P., Entwhistle, M., Plonski, S., Ofori-Addo, G., & Lewis, C. (n.d.). Surviving Society Presents Material Crimes: Gaslighting Tengratila.
Media. View on figshare. - Bhambra, G. (2024). Caste and its implications for sociologies of inequality. Current Sociology. doi:10.1177/00113921241275681
Article. View online. - Coates, R. D., Agozino, O., Bhambra, G. K., Meghji, A., Go, J., Itzigsohn, J., . . . Hanafi, S. (2024). Decolonizing sociology: In pursuit of truth, healing, reparations, and restructuring. In Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice (pp. 73-102). doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197615317.013.39
Chapter. View online. - Bhambra, G. (2024). Empires and Colonialism: An Essay in Historiographic Reconstruction. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 65(3), 192-205. doi:10.18261/tfs.65.3.6
Article. View online. - Bushu, N. B., & Kufakurinani, U. (2024). The Zimbabwean Economic Crisis. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (pp. pages). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1242
Chapter. View on figshare. - Lester, A. (2024). The Truth about Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism. London, UK: Hurst.
Book. View on figshare. - Bhambra, G., Edwards, E., Finn, M., & Williams, F. (2024). From the ‘culture wars’ to reparative histories. Journal of the British Academy, 12(1-2), pages. doi:10.5871/jba/012.a10
Article. View on figshare. - Qugana, H. (2024). Unknown Soldiers, (Un)wanted Pasts: Remembering the Seven Years’ War Sepoys in Britain and the Philippines. In The 1762 British Invasion of Spanish-Ruled Philippines: Beyond Imperial and National Imaginaries (pp. 121-153). Manila, Philippines: National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
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2023
- Corble, A. (2023). Re-collecting Ranajit Guha through a counter-archival lens. University of Sussex. Retrieved from https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/decolonialmapsoflearning/2023/11/
Blog. - Corble, A. (2023). Re-discovering and mapping the British Library of Development Studies Legacy Collection through global metadata space and time. University of Sussex. Retrieved from https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/
Blog. - Corble, A. (2023). ‘Libraries of Racial Discovery’: transatlantic hidden histories and the politics of memory. University of Sussex. Retrieved from https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/
Blog. - Lester, A. (2023). The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. doi:10.1080/03086534.2023.2209947
Article. View online.
2022
- Bhambra, G. (2022). For a reparatory social science. Global Social Challenges Journal, 1(1), 8-20. doi:10.1332/HIEO9991
Article. View on figshare. - Lester, A. (2022). Deny and Disavow Distancing the Imperial Past in the Culture Wars. London: Sunrise. Retrieved from https://www.sunpub.info/deny-and-disavow
Book. - Bhambra, G. K. (2022). Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations. British Journal of Sociology, 73(1), 73-77. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12908
Article. View online. - Lester, A. (2022). Space, simultaneity, and the global restructuring of the British Empire. Historical Geography, 50(1), 1-18. doi:10.1353/hgo.2022.a959353
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2021
- Bhambra, G. (2021). Decolonizing critical theory?: epistemological justice, progress, reparations. Critical Times, 4(1), 73-89. doi:10.1215/26410478-8855227
Article. View on figshare. - Al-Hilou, R., Baker, J., Chatterjee, S., Cooke, M., Foster, K., Hurst, R. H., . . . others. (2021). Making African connections: decolonial futures for colonial collections. Initial findings and recommendations. University of Sussex. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4456781
Reports and working papers. View on figshare. - Kvangraven, I. H., Styve, M. D., & Kufakurinani, U. (2021). [Editorial] Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy. Review of African Political Economy, 48(167), 1-7. doi:10.1080/03056244.2021.1896262
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2019
- Odysseos, L. (2019). Stolen Life's Poetic Revolt. MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 47(3), 341-372. doi:10.1177/0305829819860199
Article. View online.
2018
- Wise, L. (n.d.). Naming genocide: the least that can be done. (pp. pages). Santa Barbara, CA, USA: 21st Century Global Dynamics, University of California.
Other. View on figshare. - Doro, E., & Kufakurinani, U. (2018). Resource curse or governance deficit? The role of parliament in Uganda’s oil and Zimbabwe’s diamonds. Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(1), 43-57. doi:10.1080/03057070.2018.1403214
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2017
- Odysseos, L. (2017). Prolegomena to any future decolonial ethics: coloniality, poetics and ‘being human as praxis'. Millennium, 45(3), 447-472. doi:10.1177/0305829817704503
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2016
- ushehwedu, K., & Kufakurinani, U. (2016). Land-related Conflicts in Insiza North, 2000-2013: Towards Integration and Reconciliation. In Historical Perspectives on Violence, Conflict and Accommodation in Zimbabwe (pp. pages). Gweru, Zimbabwe: Midlands State University Press.
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2015
- Kufakurinani, U., & Bamu, W. (2015). “Resettled and Yet Unsettled?” Land Conflicts and Food (in)security in Insiza North, Zimbabwe, 2005-2013. In Dialoguing Land and Indigenisation in Zimbabwe and Other Developing Countries Emerging Perspectives (pp. pages). University of Zimbabwe Publications.
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