Kai Butterfield

rebsl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:09:52 +0000

Kai Butterfield is an artist, Ontario Certified Teacher, and PhD candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). They work as a primary-junior occasional teacher in the Toronto District School Board and a course instructor in the Master of Teaching program.

Their doctoral research employs hauntology to assess the ways that antiblackness has shaped restorative justice theory. Hauntology, a methodology that presences the enduring impact of historical harm, illuminates how the spectre of slavery haunts restorative justice theory and appears in schools as the continued subjugation of Black students within restorative justice processes. Butterfield's research proposes a framework for disrupting antiblackness in school discipline and assessing the efficacy of neoliberal justice-making processes.

Keywords: Restorative Justice, School Discipline, Social Justice Education, Black Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Black Feminisms, Hauntology, Haunting as Methodology

Juanita De Barros

rebsl — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:31:38 +0000

Juanita De Barros is a Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University and the director of the Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice. She is the former president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She did her PhD at 91��ɫ and was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the Department of Afro-American and African studies at the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of two book series: “Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies” (Cambridge University Press) and “Confronting Atrocity: Human Rights and Restorative Justice” (McGill-Queens University Press). Her research concentrates on the history of health, gender, and reproductive rights in the Caribbean within the context of imperialism and post-slavery societies. She has written two books, numerous articles and book chapters and has co-edited four essay collections. has co-edited three essay collections and two journal special issues. Her most recent publications are Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery and the essay collection, Public Health and the Imperial Project. Her current research project explores the intersection of health and the law in the context of child incarceration in state institutions in the early 20th century Caribbean.

Restorative Justice | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Kai Butterfield

Juanita De Barros