Healing in the damage: Towards novel perspectives on human-environment entanglements in the Americas
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This Special Issue presents "healing" as a dynamic analytical lens for evaluating human and non-human relations in our current planetary crisis. Moving away from a purely damage-centred focus, the authors use decolonial and feminist frameworks to explore how centring local and Indigenous perspectives can spark innovative responses to environmental challenges. They map out healing across three main dimensions - its transformative potential, its non-linear temporalities, and its material integration of diverse knowledges - while openly acknowledging the socio-political challenges of translating this concept across distinct cosmologies. Ultimately, they argue that healing should not be viewed as a static solution, but rather as an evolving, inherently incomplete, and ongoing process of transformation.
