[Anthropgrad] RMAP RESEARCH SEMINAR - Dr Tim Forsyth - 12.30-1.30pm Friday 22 February

[RMAP Seminars]

ARE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS SOCIALLY EXCLUSIVE? A STUDY FROM THAILAND

Dr Tim Forsyth (Reader in Development Studies, London School of 
Economics and Political Science, UK)

Friday 22 February 2008, 12.30-1.30pm
Seminar Room C (Nadel Room) Coombs Building, ANU

Abstract
Many people have claimed that environmental social movements are 
socially inclusive and can challenge repressive state agendas. Yet, 
there is little research that actually assess the influence of different 
classes. Environmental policy may also repeat old-fashioned statements 
about environment that restrict livelihoods for poor people. This 
seminar presents a study using historical newspaper reporting in 
Thailand between 1968 and 2000 to asess how different social classes 
have created environmental beliefs. The findings demonstrate the 
continued influence of middle classes on environmental thinking. This 
seminar also provides a background and further discussion to the book 
recently published by Andrew Walker and Tim Forsyth on the politics of 
environment in Thailand.
<see 
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/blogs/rmap/2008/02/11/forest-guardians-forest-destroyers/> 


Bio
Tim Forsyth works on environmental governance in Asia. He specializes on 
the politics of science and expertise, and the relationships with civil 
society, and the dilemmas of implementing global environmental policy at 
the local level.


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Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University

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