Epistemologies of Repair: Community Healing, Justice, and Resistance in Post-Violence Societies
In post-systemic violence societies, the desire for justice extends beyond institutions into the practices of embodied communities that seek to heal, remember, and resist. This paper explores epistemologies of repair as a framework for understanding how knowledge, ethics, and collective resilience are reconstructed after trauma. Drawing on decolonial theory, feminist epistemology, and transitional justice, it examines how communities reclaim agency through narrative, memory, and cultural practices.
Epistemologies of Repair, Community Healing, Decolonial Theory, Restorative Justice, Collective Memory, Resistance
Epistemologies of repair redefine justice as a continuous ethical process grounded in community knowledge, care, and resilience.
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