2 . Methodology and context of the project
For a more detailed exploration of the first methodological reflections of the project , we recommend consulting the first report . It is essential to underline the continued relevance of these reflections , particularly with regard to the geographical scope of the mapping . This is particularly important given the need to foster collaborations with similar projects in the regions of Latin America , Africa and the Pacific islands that were part of the Spanish empire . Also those conducted on the subject of reparations , that we broadly consider , encompassing the communities of the countries that in the past were part of the imperial world of the Hispanic Monarchy or the contemporary Spanish State , as well as diasporic communities ( migrants or of migrant descent ) that are organised into anti-colonial and anti-racist groups . However , in this report we have decided to simplify and remove the previously considered chronological distinctions , and some of the reparation categories that were designed for the previous report have also been redefined
For the drafting of this report and database we believe it is necessary to further explore the definition of what we understand by reparation initiatives . To do so we must consider the debates on the new models of Transitional Justice ( hereinafter TJ ) that are generating vast literature on how to include the colonial and slaveholding pasts in these models . Demands for reparation form part of the approaches increasingly considered by transitional justice which , as Mohamed Sesay ( 2022 ) points out , is pushing its scope of action beyond the traditional post-war and postauthoritarian settings to now tackle the profound and structural causes of political conflicts . This is also related to the approaches of postcolonial and decolonial theories , which establish a link between these pasts and current injustices , such as inequality and racism , designing a coloniality that redefines the chronological limits of the phenomenon to treat them as structures of oppression that persist in time . In short , the demands for reparation and their materialisation in actions act synchronically and diachronically . In other words , on past and present events , which greatly complicates the definition and the categories .
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