Environmental Subjects and Displays of Political Order: the Case of Ecology Monks in Northern Thailand
In the late eighties the Thai eco-Buddhist movement, led by a fragmented network of Buddhist monks, mobilized in defense of the forested ecosystems and advocated rural communities in forest and land conflicts against the state-corporation alliance. The present discussion challenges the assumption...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ledizioni
2014-11-01
|
| Series: | Antropologia |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/258 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | In the late eighties the Thai eco-Buddhist movement, led by a fragmented network of Buddhist monks, mobilized in defense of the forested ecosystems and advocated rural communities in forest and land conflicts against the state-corporation alliance. The present discussion challenges the assumptions of those observers who described the local articulations of the eco-Buddhist movement in the nineties. By analyzing the life trajectory of two ecology monks operating in Nan and focusing on their representations of the righteous rural order, I will argue that the eco-Buddhist environmentalist approach, throughout the decade 2000-2010, became a hegemonic force, supporting the conservative powers’ effort to softly contrast the expansion of reformist social movements in the Northern Thai territories. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2281-4043 2420-8469 |