The Weight of Nightmares

Time and the Politics of Reparations for Slavery

Kenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2026 | Paperback original
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-83674-168-8 (ISBN)

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What if ending injustice means transforming not just wealth, but time itself?

Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history isn't behind us but actively shapes the now.
The demand for reparations has reignited fierce debate by exposing how today's inequalities rest on historical exploitation. This book argues that reparations aren't just about the past, they're about transforming the present by confronting the structures we've inherited.
What would it mean to undo capitalism's logic of time and imagine a radically different future? A politics of reparation would reconfigure time itself, opening new narratives and collective possibilities.

Kenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani is an author based in Brussels. He is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-founder of the International Network for Theory of History.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.9.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-83674-168-5 / 1836741685
ISBN-13	978-1-83674-168-8 / 9781836741688
Zustand	Neuware