Plantas medicinales que sanan heridas de guerra: una experiencia de reconciliación interespecie

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Authors: Vanesa Giraldo-Gärtner, Sandra González Sanabria, Edna Rocío Cortés Guzmán
Cited by: 1
References: 29

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines a campesino women's interspecies reconciliation initiative in Caquetá, Colombia, that promotes community processes of healing and peacebuilding through medicinal plants. Drawing on collaborative ethnography, we analyze how medicinal plants become nodes of socioecological relations that enable former combatants, victims, and local communities to rebuild trust, solidarity, and everyday practices of care. We argue that peacebuilding efforts require reimagining territories as relational assemblages of humans and other‐than‐human beings that mutually co‐constitute one another. By positioning plants as mediators of these relationships, the article shows how everyday practices of cultivation, healing, and storytelling generate memories and alternative futures that resist the logics of war.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Peace and Human Rights Education Peacebuilding and International Security Agriculture Land Use Rural Development

Publication details

Journal / source
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
31
Issue
2
Publication date
12 May 2026
Language
EN