14/3/23, 7:38 XIV RAM - Reunião de Antropologia do Mercosul - Grupos de Trabalho - GT 69: From Planetary Health to Planetary Healing

lanetary Healing - Dialogues between biomedicine and anthropology

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GT 69: From Planetary Health to Planetary Healing - Dialogues between

biomedicine and anthropology
Coordenador/a
Tatiana Camargo (UFRGS/USP), Laura Kemmer (HU-Berlim/USP)

Resumo: In a world of exacerbated environmental crises, where humanity's violent colonization of nature manifests as mass extinction,
degraded landscapes, and pandemic zoonoses, the notion of "planetary health" (PH) is gaining traction across the natural sciences and
humanities. PH’s conceptual and methodological promise for studying the “health” of humans and the environment as inseparably interrelated
makes it increasingly attractive for scholars outside the biomedical sciences who seek to decenter the “human” and to refocus the “local” in
their research. However, the concept of PH has so far not been developed for the humanities in general and for the discipline of anthropology
in particular. This WG addresses this gap in research by exploring the problem of "translatability". What are the conceptual opportunities and
limitations of PH for debates around the Anthropocene? How can we avoid the trap of reproducing a universalist understanding of "health"
through PH? What conceptual and methodological reflections can anthropologists bring in to mobilize the concept of PH for the study of local,
everyday struggles for the "healing" (not health, cf. Escobar 2019) of wounded, sick, violated naturecultures. This WG departs from a
collaboration at the intersection of biology and anthropology, seeking to connect more researchers interested in contributing to a genuinely
interdisciplinary development of PH for the study of human-environment conflicts and multispecies cohabitation.

 
 
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