{"title":"Books by Olufemi O. Taiwo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780197508893","title":"Reconsidering Reparations","description":"Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project - either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present; or, they focus on the past, emphasizing restitution for historical wrongs. Olúfemi O. Táíwò argues that neither approach is optimal, and advances a different case for reparations - one rooted in a hopeful future that tackles the issue of climate change head on, with distributive justice at its core. This view, which he calls the \"constructive\" view of reparations, argues that reparations should be seen as a future-oriented project engaged in building a better social order; and that the costs of building a more equitable world should be distributed more to those who have inherited the moral liabilities of past injustices. This approach to reparations, as Táíwò shows, has deep and surprising roots in the thought of Black political thinkers such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr, and Nkechi Taifa, as well as mainstream political philosophers like John Rawls, Charles Mills, and Elizabeth Anderson. Táíwò's project has wide implications for our views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226158543221,"sku":"9780197508893","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197508893_aa793a92-e658-41b1-85e2-224c64fdeacf.jpg?v=1786011284"},{"product_id":"9780745347851","title":"Elite Capture – How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)","description":"'A thinker on fire' - Robin D. G. KelleyIdentity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, identity politics is now frequently weaponised as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.   But the trouble, Olúf?´mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture -deployed by political, social and economic elites in the service of their own interests.   Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond the binary of 'class’ vs. ‘race’. By rejecting elitist identity politics in favour of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organising across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296153612661,"sku":"9780745347851","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745347851_5d680692-e0e2-4352-9c21-e74e9721b53e.jpg?v=1786015220"},{"product_id":"9798888903698","title":"Reconsidering Reparations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis-featuring a new preface by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Naomi Klein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eA clear, new case for reparations as a \"constructive,\" future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history's injustices with the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. Centuries ago, Táíwò explains, European powers engineered the systems through which advantages and disadvantages still flow. Colonialism and transatlantic slavery forged schemes of injustice on an unprecedented scale, a world order he calls \"global racial empire.\" The project of justice must meet the same scope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTáíwò's analysis not only discourages despair, it demands global resistance. \u003cem\u003eReconsidering Reparations\u003c\/em\u003e suggests policies, goals, and organizing strategies. And it leaves readers with clear and powerful advice: act like an ancestor. Do what we can to shape the world we want our moral descendants to inherit, and have faith that they will continue the long struggle for justice. This understanding, Táíwò shows, has deep roots in the thought of Black political thinkers such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cedric Robinson, and Nkechi Taifa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eReconsidering Reparations\u003c\/em\u003e is a book with profound implications for our views of justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change policy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311492215157,"sku":"9798888903698","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798888903698_534df083-b1d5-4e1f-b8f6-a1b62e2a8e61.jpg?v=1786032726"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-olufemi-o-taiwo.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}