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Reparations Beyond the Human?
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Freiburg
Horst-Weitzmann-Hörsaal (KG I, Hörsaal 1098)
Prof. Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo (Freie Universität Berlin / Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa):
Reparations Beyond the Human? Rethinking (Post)Conflict Repair and Justice in the Bangsamoro, Philippines
Within transitional justice, the relationship between environmental and more-than-human concerns and (post)conflict dynamics has been largely overlooked in processes of reconciliation, reparation, and justice. Dominant frameworks, which focus mainly on human rights to address historical injustice and harms, have tended to separate human concerns from those of the environment and more-than-human world. The emerging field of ecocentric transitional justice, informed by non-Eurocentric legal frameworks as well as indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, challenges this divide by emphasizing the interdependence and non-hierarchical entanglement of the human and more-than-human worlds. It positions both as essential to sustainable peace-building. In this talk, I draw upon the ecocentric approach, together with the anthropology of transitional justice, to shed light on the environment-(post)conflict-transitional justice nexus in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Recently emerging from six decades of conflict, the region is pioneering the Philippines' first transitional justice process involving Muslims, Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples, Christian settlers, and the Philippine government. Against this backdrop, I inquire into the multiple conceptualizations and practices of truth, truth-telling, justice, and repair among historically antagonistic groups in the region, and examine how environmental and more-than-human harms and concerns are raised and addressed in the BARMM transitional justice process and (post)conflict and environment and economic development plans. Finally, I reflect on the possibilities and limits of existing legal instruments and the ecocentric approach for reimagining reparations that en-compass conflict's full spectrum of harms.
About the speaker
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo is a public anthropologist and curator whose work explores peace and (post)conflict dynamics, struggles for self-determination, and practices of resistance and solidarity through decolonial and ethically engaged approaches. She has published extensively on these topics, including co-editing the book Thinking with the South: Reframing Research Collaboration Amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges (2023, DeGruyter) and the double special issue Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts (2022 and 2023, International Quarterly for Asian Studies). She has held temporary professorship positions at Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Bremen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she established the Philippine Studies Program, and the University of the Philippines. Rosa is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health and Social Sciences at the University of South Africa.
Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache in der Reihe "ALMA LECTURE SERIES 2026. Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics" des Colloquium politicum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut und der De/Coloniality Now Collaborative Research Initiative der Universität Freiburg.
Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/sose%2026%20reihen Quelle: Veranstalter
Reparations Beyond the Human? Rethinking (Post)Conflict Repair and Justice in the Bangsamoro, Philippines
Within transitional justice, the relationship between environmental and more-than-human concerns and (post)conflict dynamics has been largely overlooked in processes of reconciliation, reparation, and justice. Dominant frameworks, which focus mainly on human rights to address historical injustice and harms, have tended to separate human concerns from those of the environment and more-than-human world. The emerging field of ecocentric transitional justice, informed by non-Eurocentric legal frameworks as well as indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, challenges this divide by emphasizing the interdependence and non-hierarchical entanglement of the human and more-than-human worlds. It positions both as essential to sustainable peace-building. In this talk, I draw upon the ecocentric approach, together with the anthropology of transitional justice, to shed light on the environment-(post)conflict-transitional justice nexus in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Recently emerging from six decades of conflict, the region is pioneering the Philippines' first transitional justice process involving Muslims, Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples, Christian settlers, and the Philippine government. Against this backdrop, I inquire into the multiple conceptualizations and practices of truth, truth-telling, justice, and repair among historically antagonistic groups in the region, and examine how environmental and more-than-human harms and concerns are raised and addressed in the BARMM transitional justice process and (post)conflict and environment and economic development plans. Finally, I reflect on the possibilities and limits of existing legal instruments and the ecocentric approach for reimagining reparations that en-compass conflict's full spectrum of harms.
About the speaker
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo is a public anthropologist and curator whose work explores peace and (post)conflict dynamics, struggles for self-determination, and practices of resistance and solidarity through decolonial and ethically engaged approaches. She has published extensively on these topics, including co-editing the book Thinking with the South: Reframing Research Collaboration Amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges (2023, DeGruyter) and the double special issue Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts (2022 and 2023, International Quarterly for Asian Studies). She has held temporary professorship positions at Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Bremen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she established the Philippine Studies Program, and the University of the Philippines. Rosa is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health and Social Sciences at the University of South Africa.
Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache in der Reihe "ALMA LECTURE SERIES 2026. Global Ruptures or New Beginnings? Southern Perspectives on World Politics" des Colloquium politicum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut und der De/Coloniality Now Collaborative Research Initiative der Universität Freiburg.
Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/sose%2026%20reihen Quelle: Veranstalter
Veröffentlicht am Mo, 13. April 2026 um 15:52 Uhr
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