Eco-buddhismo. Monaci della foresta e paesaggi contesi in Thailandia

The book offers a critical description of eco-Buddhist environmental imaginaries and conflicts generated by natural resource management policies in contemporary Thailand. It does so by describing and comparing different visions of a rural landscape rich in resources but ecologically fragile and politically contested. The narrative focuses on the anthropological analysis of the present – ​​from the daily life of hill minorities to the biographies of environmental activists and monks, from Buddhist ordination rites to the role of the monarchy in the environmental debate – examining both the factors that root this region in the ethnic, religious and political complexity of Southeast Asia, and those that determine its exposure to planetary historical forces, such as colonialism, the Cold War and economic globalization.