The course is designed for those interested in the theories of violence and justice but with special emphases on the question of coloniality and the concept of the human. We will read several classic and recent key texts that have gained significance in recent humanities and social sciences as a result of the renewed sensibilities for the contradictions of colonial and racial capitalism. Additionally, we will read works that make attempts at theorizing the possibilities of justice of different kinds, including decolonial justice. We will ask, for instance: What sets the discussions of colonial redress apart from the dominant, liberal discourse of distributive justice or the post-conflict transitional justice and reconciliation? What are the broader intellectual implications of the intensifying quests for redress, reparation, and reconciliation when considered within the ever-expanding carcerality and spaces of exception (e.g., prisons, refugee and migrant camps, the settler occupied spaces, 'low-intensity' conflict zones, etc.) and the failing juridico-political premises of modernity and how do we situate redress in that context? How has the discourse of universal human rights and other international regimes such as the human security paradigm and international feminist jurisprudence facilitated or hindered the colonial redress? What are the earlier aborted moments of decolonization and how are they theorized in recent discussion on racial capitalism, critique of liberal humanism, and the post-Enlightenment order of knowledge?