Landback, Reparations, and Solidarity Economies

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An introduction to two related topics that have become increasingly central in the US and beyond in recent years: rising demands for, and concrete steps toward, the return of lands to present day descendants of Native and Indigenous peoples who previously occupied these lands [colloquially known as "land back"]; and the payment of reparations [either monetary or in kind] to descendants of enslaved peoples, as partial compensation for the trauma, social suffering and economic loss of enslavement. We critically examine the arguments put forth to justify both flows of thought and action; we study actual cases where these actions have been taken; and we ask what can be learned.