Healing

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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„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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Healing in the Damage: New Perspectives on Human-Environment Entanglements

By Valeska Díaz Soto, Meret Haack & Markos Panayiotou (LMU München) Kick-off Symposium of the Planetary Healing Research Project  On June 5th, 2025, the international symposium “Healing in the Damage: New Perspectives on Human-Environment Entanglements“ took place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München. The event, organized by the Planetary Healing Research Group led by Professor Eveline Dürr, launched a debate about potential Read more…

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