Research

Bringing Back Native Trees: Healing Colonial Forest Transformations in the Philippines

By Christopher Klapperich (LMU München) Turning Towards Trees Native trees are trending on social media in the Philippines. In various Facebook groups, so-called native tree enthusiasts are sharing information about and photos of Philippine tree species. Some show the trees they recently planted, others upload pictures of blooming trees in their neighborhood that they would love to grow, but cannot identify. This interest in native plants and trees is a rather recent phenomenon in the Philippines. While native trees have rarely been planted for Read more…

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Más allá de los titulares: oportunidades en la migración laboral legal México–Estados Unidos

Por Eveline Dürr y Sophia Siegel (LMU München) Imágenes de la frontera “El drama en la frontera de México con EE.UU.” (Araya, 2025), “Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border” (AP, 2025), “Die Geschichte einer letzten Umarmung” (Schlack und Pasquet, 2017) —son algunos de los ejemplos Read more…

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From “Wave” to “Mycelia”? Reflecting Notions of Transformation and Healing in Chile’s Environmental Agenda 

By Meret Haack (LMU München) Approaching polyphonic[1] transformation(s)  My research topic – transformation – seemed foggy even to me until I met Mariana Cruz[2]. We had coffee in a busy mall in Santiago on a Tuesday morning in April 2025.  After some casual conversation, I explained the topic of my preliminary doctoral Read more…

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„Nobody works out of love.“ The Healing Force of Amazonian Productivity

By Wolfgang Kapfhammer (LMU München) “Nobody works out of love!” (Ezequiel) „Ninguem trabalha por amor!“  a somewhat frustrated Ezequiel[1] snapped, as we – Ulrike Prinz, an anthropologist and journalist and I – sat amidst the ruins of a place that once has been the flagship of an Indigenous enterprise which commercializes forest products of the Sateré-Mawé, an Indigenous Read more…

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