Oral Presentation The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2023

Transitional or abolitionist? Reparative justice and the settler state (18788)

Rachel B Hughes 1
  1. SGEAS, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

This presentation is concerned with how ‘transitional justice’ frameworks have informed recent First Nations truth-telling and reparation processes in the State of Victoria. I contrast transitional justice approaches with the radical worldmaking offered by ‘a geographical case for reparation’ within current abolitionist thought and praxis (Gilmore 2022; Quinn and Inwood 2021). I ask critical questions about abolitionist and reparative work in relation to ongoing processes of settler colonialism in ‘Australia’.