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This research note explores the identities of environmental defenders in Thailand, including their gendered dimensions, and the ways in which environmental actions manifest as a result.
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SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthropology, sociology, and history.
The research note “What’s in a Name? Contested Identities of Grassroots Environmental Defenders in Thailand and their Gendered Dimensions” illustrates that dominant notions of environmentalism in Thailand often do not capture the various manifestations of environmentalism as lived reality, and that many displays of environmental protection are marked by class and gendered dimensions that are related to livelihoods, autonomy and land rights. Elucidating the intersecting, yet often ambiguous, identities of defenders helps expand what “environmentalism” entails and may provoke more holistic policy responses that address the interests of more communities.
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