Mapping Injury

Led by Professor Vivienne Jabri, the project aims to provide a new understanding, theoretical, conceptual and empirical, of the politics of global justice. In a context replete with global conflict, ongoing socio-economic inequalities, and the fracture of societies, our aim is to contribute towards scholarly, public, civil society, governmental and international deliberations relating to practices that generate injuries, the global entanglements implicated in such practices, and the political, juridical, and institutional mechanism that are and can be mobilised in response.

We place the lens on the extractive industries impacting the lives and lived spaces of indigenous communities in Colombia, the ongoing war and the breakdown of public infrastructures in Lebanon, the environmental devastations and violence linked to oil extraction in the Niger Delta, and the ongoing poverty and landlessness in South Africa.

Each ‘site’ presents social, economic, cultural, and material injuries that have profound ongoing impact on the lives and lived experience of communities, and on the wider socio-political terrain of their domestic and international politics. Such impact raises questions about how communities mobilise in seeking repair and redress, and how civil society groups, governments, as well as regional and international organisations and mechanisms respond.