Maeve McKeown Postdoctoral Fellow Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: October 2014‒August 2015 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Should Europe pay reparations to the Caribbean for historic slavery?« Project outline: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is proposing to sue former slave-owning European countries for reparations for slavery. This follows the successful Mau Mau case, in which over 5,000 Kenyans received compensation from the British government for torture suffered under the historic colonial regime. In this research project, I apply Iris Marion Young’s distinction between the »liability model« and »social connection model« of responsibility to CARICOM’s claim, developing the relationship between forward-looking and backward-looking responsibilities for historical injustice. (Maeve McKeown) Funding of the stay: »Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«Scholarly profile of Maeve McKeownMaeve McKeown is currently completing her Ph.D. at UCL (University College London). Her thesis is titled »Responsibility Without Guilt: A Youngian Approach to Responsibility for Global Injustice.« |