March 4, 2022
This paper articulates โrepair workโ โ drawing from Eve Sedgwickโs concept of reparative reading โ as a jurisprudential activity. In the late 90s, Sedgwick urged her scholarly community to invest in reparative readings as a contrast to the prevalent hermeneutics of suspicion. The reparative impulse, she wrote, โis additive and accretive โฆ. it wants to assemble and confer plenitude on an object that will then have resources to offer to an inchoate selfโ. A commitment to reparative...