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Artwork by Molly Marie Gurney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756098039-W0VYK9DL11WNVUFTSU6P/Praveena_Test_shots006+%281%29.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593216878407-A75XXD63LBIOGZ4FKNWY/Quarantine+Jaunt+Map.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593216608965-DPXWD7K1G81N568JPH4O/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-154.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593216678171-6R7QRAJ7S7WVRBAOTUE8/DSC02370.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756381022-THNJ9G9Z5M3NNSEE7NQK/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-7.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756371925-8IOKRD2S97VRO5LTI9EZ/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-16.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756371927-GWFM4L4JGKZTJI9G61YY/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-30.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756366170-AH207PTIJE3EIG4LPNX6/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-34.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756349463-43S90GEVSIZAAXPMEL0I/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-57.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756354364-20JJPTF9GY857P40T8PS/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-62.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756446897-IJ5FCZQ36L2PH1HGIL92/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-70.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756472130-UEWV95RVNJZD63HF5MPX/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-78.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756476296-YQJSX81PMMIH7IVAQYK1/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-89.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756443469-JL6U8BXJ70MTAUVSFFNM/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-94.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756489028-I3HR5HFTEH1JWBX3HJV7/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-100.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756452513-F1045VEPDDEIMDVINI2L/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-107.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756513788-GACUFF8RDIRQQE8GSPE6/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-120.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756516963-6JHOZ9UGA4WYSSOPKE0T/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-130.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756556671-5UE3RYHX2GEJ5ZP2JWI6/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-137.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756560457-AXP8VRX34Z86F23EACPX/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-143.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756592486-2XPUT0YG31B7KL48B6AX/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-153.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756616693-CBEHKB7Y3RX1FSQIKSZC/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-165.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756598420-CKUKH2S1KIWM9XYZX07P/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-169.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756604041-QLI6KSW4LVOS8Y4107MB/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-177.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756628090-ASES9CG1PGZIR23DCERI/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-187.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756635782-5MMKDW5XQ88ERZSPDV5L/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-201.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594756648972-846FZK9U5ZOD0EVO3N9K/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-220.jpg Home https://www.visibleghosts.com/about daily 0.75 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623736729-8L9AS2CNFI2Q1P5HXC9T/RasiSalai1.jpg Story of Resistance The wetlands were once a fertile source for food and cultural sustenance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623740591-J1ELZWGAZCYP434GL50W/RasiSalai2.jpg Story of Resistance The Rasi Salai dam was a part of the Khong-Chi-Mun project, a series of 13 planned large-scale dams for the Chi, Mun, and Mekong Rivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593643001082-7TM7T9VN2NHWJH75DCB9/rasistrory3.jpg Story of Resistance The project aimed to improve irrigation, prevent floods, and create jobs. It failed. Instead, the dam destroyed natural resources and biodiversity, causing floods, food insecurity, soil and water contamination, and deforestation. Over 17,000 villagers were impacted by land rights issues ranging from unemployment to displacement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623741544-KICGNRZTZ9U396KLY23Y/RasiSalai4.jpg Story of Resistance In 1997, community members protested the dam’s construction by stealing stones from the dam’s base and orchestrating a mass 25,000 person protest in Bangkok. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623739837-PWDW8EASOF92AWJM9LOD/RasiSalai5.jpg Story of Resistance The power of the people won 505 million baht to 5,300 families in compensation. In 2019, Thailand’s military government earmarked an additional 600 million baht. However, most settlements have excluded people who worked informally on the land or could not produce specific paperwork. It also did not address discrepancies in how much land was lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623738954-V3UXC7BZOYJ1RIHLSZSH/RasiSalai6.jpg Story of Resistance Starting in 2001, Rasi Salai villagers welcomed “Thai Baan” community based research when local dam-affected men and women served as citizen scientists to collect data on changes to the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623744129-KPTCU8DPPTTAVVWANSLT/RasiSalai7.jpg Story of Resistance The Wetlands Center is a departure from large scale marches in Bangkok; These more subtle forms of organizing draw researchers, activists, and government stakeholders to the dam site, subverting the centralized government regime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593623744266-APDCNTNEKWUQ462YXUV1/RasiSalai8.jpg Story of Resistance So the fight continues… with new strategies to spread their story. https://www.visibleghosts.com/map-responses daily 0.75 2020-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592414359713-4W43CSHF47I6HZ2VXZ5H/Screen+Shot+2020-05-27+at+12.15.20+PM.png Maps - At the core of our research, we asked citizen scientists to take us on a neighborhood walk and capture aspects of their environment that helped or hindered access to healthy living. These response pieces come from friends, artists, and amateur cartographers who charted maps of their own neighborhoods. Maps, powerful instruments of communication and persuasion, can also unlock your sociological imagination. This atlas of imagination invites a dialogue around identity, environmental health, and neighborhoods as a unit for change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591548727567-9L4L8B69MJUUJ7RBAI4X/GKMap2020-page-001.jpg Maps Gita K. from Nashua, New Hampshire Every season has a beauty of its own. My morning meditation walk sets the tone for my day. Secret of my joy and contentment. I walk from home, through my neighborhood, to the woods, along the Nashua river and by the waterfalls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591637972865-7JV1TUM7IIAHC1F00PL6/image-asset.png Maps Charis A. from Washington, D.C. I live in Columbia Heights, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in northwest Washington, DC- one of the US's most rapidly gentrifying cities. My map is a meandering timeline of the plants I've encountered on nature walks with my social distanced walking buddy, throughout the past spring months. I've included the locations of the plants rather than their names, as I found it more interesting that over the weeks we'd wandered much farther on foot into adjacent neighborhoods than I had in my past years of living in the District. Taking the photos of these plants and sketching around our surrounding neighborhoods was a welcome respite from coronavirus stresses and has even become a coping tool for me in the middle of the racial inequality outrage our country is finally confronting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596562632448-MAFJ33IM06TV8JCXQNQ3/unnamed.jpg Maps Apeksha A. from Bangalore, India I've lived here for chunks of time, and been away while my family was still here. It is both very familiar and full of surprises. I've gotten news, both good and bad. I've made friends and seen them move away. I got my period here, and then moved away myself. Time has impacted my relationship with this neighborhood, and taught me that spaces are brought to life by the people that inhabit them - they determine the plants that grow outside, and the extensions made on the facade of their home. While I know the roads, subtle things about the houses, and the inhabitants themselves change. My familiarity with this place lies in the stories and relationships that were born and brought up here. I am not great with directions, but I drew this from memory, and summoned the words to lay over the streets from memory as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593125488388-YJHML2SZXDO6NAK17H8V/Screen+Shot+2020-06-25+at+3.50.30+PM.png Maps Frannie G. from Somserset, Pennsylvania The trail I grew up walking with my family (mapped above) is the one I continued to return to during my stint at my parents’ house during quarantine. Hiking is an act that has always fueled me, made me feel joyful and alive. But never do I go hiking and feel like I don’t belong there because of the color of my skin or fear that my life is in danger. That’s what white privilege is. Systemic racism continues to preclude BIPOC from venturing out and experiencing land that is theoretically for public use, recreation and enjoyment. Resource: https://www.diversifyoutdoors.com/resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591676641049-QO3TT2BX58FOT9M4640B/Mapped+Hands+%281%29.png Maps Meredith C. from Metairie, Louisiana Self-isolation has left even the most introverted among our ranks reaching out in search of new ways to connect within our communities. In my case, this has taken the form of creating and gifting to those I am unable to see and touch. My map is an abstraction of the drive I make from my home in Metairie to my friend's shady porch in uptown New Orleans, a now unofficial contact-less trading post where we exchange things like homemade bread, drawings, sculpture, and, most recently, fresh ginger root. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591551033982-DMZLL7JM7WC32DGVTFVG/Thaviny%2Bs%2BMap-page-001.jpg Maps Thaviny S. from Warin Chamrap, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand Before quarantine, my life consisted of a routine route that got me to and from my apartment (more specifically, my bed) and my office/ my desk without much room to explore the immediate space I call "home." However, during quarantine, I was able to take many different routes all within my own bedroom: from the bed to the floor for morning yoga to the restroom to the kitchen for breakfast, lunch and dinner and then to work at my work desk at home. It was nice to be able to make use of a space I always lived in, but never got to embrace and fully utilize. I felt like I was living a new life in an old place I am now even more happy to call home (before my recent move back to the states, of course ^_^). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596562758489-UM2ECONZ8O9ZGMGG7LVR/Kayla%27s+Map.jpg Maps Kayla S. from Fremont, CA Although the world is much larger than this map shows, COVID has dramatically condensed my spaces and confined me to my house. Because of COVID, I have transformed areas in my house to find comfort and keep sane during these uncertain times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591548379374-KM0BEQDV2W42RFM9C4P5/SMKMap2020-page-001.jpg Maps Suppayan K. from Nashua, New Hampshire This is my favorite room in our home. We have lived there over forty years. It is my “Office and Work Room.” I spend several hours during the day on my computer, reading and sending mail, filing documents, etc. My wife does all her sewing projects in this room as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591677388914-TYAD5SE9GOIF9QHAPV5T/Map_HelenWieffering_0620-page-001.jpg Maps Helen W. from Phoenix, Arizona I moved to Phoenix ten months ago to change careers and start journalism school. The city is a sprawling place where most people travel by car and most buildings are one-story squares. I moved here without knowing anyone, and looking at it now, my map reflects that history. I drew expansive city blocks between school and home with plenty of room for detail - but found myself only interested in noting the places that hold memories for me. The map feels a little empty for that reason, but I think it also reflects the blank-slate, wide-open feeling I've had since moving here to try something new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591392314402-LJY884FBI3BUY0AKOSUU/Portland+Running+Map-01.jpg Maps David F. from Portland, Oregon This is a map of all the routes I’ve run in Portland. Combining all of the runs I’ve done on one plane allows me to see and interpret my city in a way I’ve never done before. I removed all the original roads, rivers, and labels, to be left with a spider web of lines that create a skeleton of the city. Running is a major part of my life, it helps me deal with emotional problems, it keeps me healthy and goal oriented, and it has allowed me to go places and experience things I never would’ve otherwise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591480027507-9WZ8CQKRXUDPBY8OAORN/emily+map+.png Maps Emily K. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania My experience living in Khon Kaen, Thailand was defined by Khon Kaen University (KKU). Not only was I living a two minute drive from my job at the University, but the spacial structuring of the surrounding neighborhoods were, no doubtably, designed with students in mind. For one, KKU doesn't have on campus study spaces. This pushes students' lives into the neighborhoods. Whether that means studying in one of the many (MANY!) cafes or eating out for most meals. I was lucky to benefit from this abundance of food. While a teacher, my life was similar to my students, a similarity I enjoyed having just started to adjust to life after college. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592240325846-O4MB2GJ3I1SVJGK1QI0X/20200613_234235.jpg Maps Hannah C. from Fairfax, Virginia This is a map showing the neighborhood I lived in while teaching at Khon Kaen University. The blocks around my street managed to pack in tons of cute cafes and restaurants, each with its own cast of characters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592239744057-XDNA5TFVOWWCJ706IG4U/Jamie_map-page-001.jpg Maps Jamie Gobreski from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In March I was suddenly evacuated from my Peace Corps site in an Andean, indigenous and Quechua speaking site of Peru. I was only in my site for three out of the 24 months it ought to have been-- but even in those short months I formed a special bond with the people and places of my community. I found this informal map especially touching to make, since part of my initial community diagnostic process was having my students and others make their own "community resource" map. I chose crayon because I worked mostly with young students and I loved the creative side of that work-- plus, crayons make me happy, just like those kids did! I'm sad to be away from my site, where I was laying down roots for most of the 2 years to come, but I treasure the memories and moments I was able to collect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592410580240-CC05LZW31PIYDYA7KCWW/image-asset.png Maps Celeste F. from Fremont, CA My map is a collection of four photos from my favorite places in Fremont. The Fremont Skate Park, my go-to tattoo shop called Dogfather Tattoo Company, flower bushes on the street I live on, and a photo of the hills. The white mountains represent how the hills are always visible when driving around Fremont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591479725328-SQH4CVZWJLHWPGTX8TLG/Fernes_picaso_map_june06-2020-page-001.jpg Maps Paul F. from Fremont, California My reflections while staying in place include my origins, schools and family. The virus helped me discover my neighborhood and community and to pay attention to the simple joys and causes that will map my journey on a more engaging trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591548628710-3XWH0ONXB3TEEQQM1OUI/Meridian%2BHill%2B-%2BMalcolm%2BX%2BPark%2BMap%2B%25281%2529.jpg Maps Natalie S. from Washington, D.C. I take daily walks for exercise, and Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park is a place that I do my best to explore every chance I get. The park has become a stabilizing place in my psyche but due to overcrowding under the pandemic conditions I've had to avoid the area for the last couple of months. I typically use humor to avoid dwelling on more melancholy thoughts, so I have utilized this exercise as an opportunity for remembrance of a place I love so much. I hope you get a laugh out of it like I did! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593125167250-ZXA933EW9XUJFTZKHZJD/IMG_0835.jpeg Maps Jenny F. from Newton, Massachusetts This map is in flight. Dreaming. It’s a fragment. Stuck, trying to land. It’s a conjunction on a good day and ellipse on a bad one. It’s running half marathons around itself, letting banana bread in the oven veil the idea that people I call home are scattered beyond its scope. This map is imperfect, a sketch. It’s young, asking questions and nourishing tomorrow for answers. It’s working towards movement. It’s moving towards words and colors. It’s bodies in transit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591837539701-X7XKK6F7IOLOR7E8FM0D/Quarantine+Map.jpg Maps Ishan P. from Syosset, New York My map represents my occupation of the physical and abstract spaces of my home and mind during this quarantine period. The rooms I have been spending the majority of my time in are my bedroom, kitchen and living room, which are purple, burgundy and orange, respectively. I tracked the time spent in each room over a 15-day period and calculated the percent average spent in each room at a certain hour. To understand my map, the viewer must look at it and imagine a 24-hour clock around the orbit. The three orbits correspond with each room, and the closer they are to the center of the map, the greater the time spent, on average, in that room. While the colors represent where I spent my energy, the words represent how I spent it. They represent activities and ideas that roughly, but not always, take place where they are put. The innermost flower represents this use of energy. The larger the petal, the more time I spend on the words in its direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592410522777-9X3UBM25S1HE3OEQT1CN/image-asset.png Maps Celeste F. from Fremont, CA My map is a collection of four photos from my favorite places in Fremont. The Fremont Skate Park, my go-to tattoo shop called Dogfather Tattoo Company, flower bushes on the street I live on, and a photo of the hills. The white mountains represent how the hills are always visible when driving around Fremont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591480006958-P4FI1VBWQEY4ADTBPWZC/elias%2Bmap.jpg Maps Elias B. from Greenlawn, New York I drew the couple of streets that I always make loops of when I take my daily walk - almost always with a podcast playing. Within the streets are observations I’ve made through walking them over and over again. Surrounding the streets are some of my favorite quotes from the podcasts I’ve gone through, as well as some of my favorite “actions” to take while walking: Learn, Ask, Breathe, Wonder, Observe, Listen, Notice, Be, Slow Down. https://www.visibleghosts.com/collaborators-2 daily 0.75 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591559851614-OVHI1G59YS8PEHCS23TD/thumbnail_image0.jpg Collaborators Dr. Prajak Supantee is an artist and professor of contemporary art at Khon Kaen University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts. He provided Visible Ghosts with curatorial mentorship, connect us to local storytellers and artists, and expanded the viewership of the collection. He also managed 8 mixed media student artists who contributed original pieces for the in-person show in Khon Kaen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594620886731-DQI7M5SXWWDQXJ6D20R7/dsc01618_orig.jpg Collaborators Dr. Kanokwan Manorom has focused on participatory impact assessment, Mekong river basin and wetlands environmental health, and indigenous knowledge on sustainable resource governance for over two decades. As the Director of the Mekong Sub-region Social Research Center at Ubon Ratchathani University, her broad network of researchers and activists was crucial for us to partner with organizations working to improve the health of rights-holders and their ecosystems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591559873133-5XI5FGJBCL11RY3SO1QZ/90099864_10221810672199466_7930841348981129216_n.jpg Collaborators Atchara Simlee is a lecturer of English at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University (UBU). She completed her bachelor’s degree in English and Communication at UBU and holds a Master’s in teaching English as a foreign language from Thammasat University. Her research interests are in language education and sociolinguistics. Atchara served as the lead translator and cultural liaison for Visible Ghosts; she accompanied all research walks and community interactions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591409322050-YR2J91YU0CBBQ0P4DZEC/Luke_PortraitSQ.jpg Collaborators Luke Duggleby is an award-winning British freelance photographer who has been based in Bangkok, Thailand for more than 15 years. Focusing on Asia, particularly Thailand, he has worked for some of the most globally respected media publications and NGO's producing documentary and portrait photography. When not on assignment, he works on his own projects that focus largely on human and environmental rights of communities and human rights defenders. He served as the lead photographer for Visible Ghosts’ object-based storytelling gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591409596070-HCPFXIR1PN91GBI6V2QF/Abby%2BKing-Headshot8-11SoM%2Bcopy.jpg Collaborators Dr. Abby C. King is a Professor of Health Research & Policy and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on expanding the reach and generalizability of evidence-based interventions through use of state-of-the-art communication technologies; community-based participatory research perspectives to address health disparities among disadvantaged populations; and policy-level approaches to health promotion. Dr. King is Faculty Director of the Our Voice Initiative at Stanford’s Prevention Research Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591409458474-7FO4Y75YBV5ZAIKQMXYT/Banchoff+head+shot.jpg Collaborators Ann Banchoff is Director of Community Engagement for the Our Voice Initiative of the Stanford Prevention Research Center. She has worked extensively with migrants and other underserved populations in the California Bay Area and in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her background in public health, social work, and international human rights guided this community-academic partnership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592584692920-LS1LOANTDL6QSR910CFG/IMG_0533.jpg Collaborators Molly Marie Gurney is our in-house artist. She has experience researching grassroots environmental activism in Thailand, facilitating dialogues on climate change, and weaving together community, art, and social change. She is passionate about community organizing that advocates for structural change while uplifting communities and protecting the environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591820071445-RTPZ16MF1EEGT9YRBFT0/12622064_10153825584573548_7900533466396128329_o.jpg Collaborators John Mark Belardo is the Field Director for the CIEE Development and Globalization Program, coordinating logistics and community stays for study abroad students since 2006. John served as a key cultural liaison for Visible Ghosts, and originally connected Praveena to the Rasi Salai community as an ideal candidate for an Our Voice study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591819822516-SWSOS2AFI211W8T6H2A5/Camilla_edited.jpg Collaborators Camilla Fuller was working as a 2019-2020 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Thailand when she got involved with Visible Ghosts during her internship month. As someone committed to helping people feel heard, Camilla was interested in co-curating as a way to expand her tools in this mission beyond the classroom setting. Camilla now seeks to integrate storytelling and art based activism into her life work. https://www.visibleghosts.com/letter-curator daily 0.75 2020-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591413203547-5EQ5JTDS3Q2ZC8XMB1DE/DSC02292.jpg Letter from the Curator - Urban New Orleans to Rural Thailand Snow and Whitehead’s emphasis on community-based knowledge to solve public health crises parallels my innate respect for local people as experts of their lived experiences as exemplified in my citizen science approach in which community members lead research projects. Under Dr. Jylana Sheats, I used Stanford University’s Our Voice Framework to examine assets and barriers to healthy living for my Honors Thesis, “Storytelling Used as a Public Health Tool: Healthy Living and Food Access in New Orleans.” Citizen scientists used the Healthy Neighborhood Discovery Tool, an app–based environment assessment tool that captures photographs and geocoded audio narratives about neighborhood features they perceive as helping and hindering their active living choices. Participants collectively prioritized relevant issues to address, brainstormed potential solutions, and advocated for realistic policy-level changes with local decision makers. After using the DT in New Orleans, I was invited to use the tool in a dam-affected community in Thailand with the support of a Fulbright research grant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591411273669-U0RKQFRTJL624533N2G5/Snow-cholera-map-1_banner-1.jpg Letter from the Curator - Storytelling as a Public Health Tool Drawn to public health storytelling, I was also hooked on one of the most compelling pieces of narrative history, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. Author Steven Johnson charted this investigative tale that led to the source of the horrific cholera outbreak in nineteenth-century London. Protagonist John Snow coordinated with Henry Whitehead, a local curate and trusted community member, to collect data on residents' daily habits and the incidence of the disease. Their interdisciplinary collaboration, use of maps as pioneers of epidemiology to document "street level knowledge,” and unfettered curiosity inspired my path as a data journalist and health researcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591414737203-JGNHJMPD2BQE2XXIX2C6/DSC02326.JPG Letter from the Curator - Circling Back Since studying abroad in Thailand in 2017, I stayed connected to public health and land rights issues in Isaan through Radical Grandma Collective, Isaan Record, and ENGAGE. In 2019, community leaders in Rasi Salai and faculty at Ubon Ratchathani University and Khon Kaen University expressed interest in hosting me as a researcher given my combined experiences in storytelling, previous training in the DT tool, and basic understanding of the political ecology in Isaan. The community’s history of resilience combined with previous exposure to citizen science methods also made them an ideal candidate for the OurVoice Framework; Starting in 2001, local fishermen served as citizen scientists, collecting data and insights on changes to the river in an effort to adopt environmentally sound water-management approaches and supports the restoration of wetlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591412533851-1M94DO4FYGNGHODPFHIK/DSC02060.JPG Letter from the Curator - Passing the Mic I leveraged my academic positionality to facilitate engagement between community members and decision makers. This "passing the mic" strategy provided an effective platform for storytelling in which both the storyteller and listener benefit and transform. While meeting the community’s request for documenting these impacts, I am curating an object-based storytelling exhibit to illuminate villagers’ evolving relationship to the Mun River and wetlands (see Objects). I believe the cross-pollination of ideas among social scientists, public health researchers, and oral historians can unearth new findings in all three fields. https://www.visibleghosts.com/objects daily 0.75 2020-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034133769-GDG4N5UHIEUG46TPDT5S/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-7.jpg Objects Paw Chalem Chai, Puppet Master, Assembly of the Poor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034124451-24EWV6IER14A22SWZ2TP/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-3.jpg Objects I’ve been performing the story of Ramayana since I was 12. Now I am 72. One year it was so unusually cold that a lot of cows and buffalo died and we got the idea to use the skin of the dead animals to make the characters, like this one. We needed to burn charcoal to earn enough money to buy a screen. After that I went to many places all over Isaan to perform… I remember at that time I had to work in the rice farm to grow rice and I got five baht a day. I had to save up money to buy pants which cost 20 baht. I had to quit performing because I had to go to Bangkok to work. Ramayana is the story of our daily life, embedded with the teachings of Buddhism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034128374-GSF6WX9MMY8BUFP31L54/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-16.jpg Objects Meh Sin, Bahn Pueng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034073616-Q8RFDQ3IXR37ZKBMCXO4/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-9.jpg Objects Before dam, I made mats from reeds I collected from the wetland area as a side job. I could walk over to the wetlands from my house. Sometimes, depending on the weather, I had to use a boat. I used to sell many mats, but since the dam construction I can’t find the reeds anymore because of all the flooding. Now I have another side job to make mattresses and pillowcases. At first, I was okay with the dam. But now my community is unhappy about it because you cannot make a living from the Mun river anymore. You cannot go to collect the reeds to make the mats to weave the mats, you cannot go to collect non timber forest products from the area, you cannot even go fishing if you do not have capital to buy the gear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034545311-YUOFBWJY8MKDGY97IFGU/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-30.jpg Objects Paw Pan, Village Head of Bahn Pueng, Assembly of the Poor and Wetlands Association https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034573071-4CX8O1U0OWBVDQI7V2MV/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-25.jpg Objects Adapting Local Wisdom: This is what we call Gab Bangg in Isaan. In the past, this fishing gear was made from bamboo trees. We’d insert a lot of holes, attach rope, soak it in the river for one week, dry it, and put small tree branches inside to make fish think it’s their home. This is local wisdom. The trees don’t last long in the river anymore, so I adapted it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034647680-DC9CREB6ATT6M0CAWK8V/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-34.jpg Objects Paw Somphong, Assembly of the Poor, Bahn Pueng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591034690083-PSK9IKNNOBROKBIFKKMJ/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-20.jpg Objects Eel Catcher: We put this in the swamp or the pond to catch eels. With the flooding, because of the dam, you can still catch eels but you need a boat to do it. The fishery department has more strictly implemented a lot of rules after the dam was built. During June-August you cannot fish anywhere; it’s the time when fish lay eggs and it is hard to make a living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591829637054-AI0YB6X0ND7YRGDYF3PI/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-94.jpg Objects Mae Saeng Son (Wanpen), Assistant Village Head, Rasi Salai Dam Development Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591830618882-6ZALJM62E1XQ9CFEK419/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-112.jpg Objects I’ve never lost a buffalo because I have this bell. Before the wetlands flooded, I had more than 10 buffalos to plow the land and carry goods. you knew where your buffalo were because of this sound. Wherever they went, you would hear them. I joined the protests because I lost my land. Many people who lost their land would also ask me to help them advocate for their rights. I want to be a leader who focuses on women’s rights, to promote and help create more income for women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591831952418-T1J39GK47G2SM3KKK9VB/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-120.jpg Objects Mae Lampai Duaphan, Assembly of the Poor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591832016909-A04PSNRT1ID0U42K63VY/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-154.jpg Objects I chose the pictures of the wetland before dam construction because it’s a good memory for me. I could make a living from this area. Now because of the flooding, I have to grow rice twice a year in my village because I cannot grow in the wetlands. In the old days, I went to Bangkok for three months to protest. The leaders of each village could take care of a big group of people. They fought for the community. I feel proud of that. It took a lot of time for us to get the compensation that we wanted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591834761202-ZHDPXFTGD4UHTH8NDAG6/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-62.jpg Objects Sawas Lekleeset, Previous Village Head Assistant, Rasi Salai Dam Development Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591834809536-5N6B0WCO92B0S2420XU5/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-100.jpg Objects I gave this sticky rice container “Gradong” to you because it shows my skills of making it and it could help me create income. It’s what I can make. Back when I was strong and healthy, I made several of these out of bamboo from my farm. I learned by myself, sold them to villagers, to some sellers in town to re sell. My children work on my farm now. My kids can make the sticky rice container. I taught them. My wife also knows how to do it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591838281239-FB09IXDYVX46GCPWNYNN/Rasi_Salai_Portraits_Feb-78.jpg Objects Sawas Aatsale, Rasi Salai Dam Development Group https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591838426158-KB7KYOE31GG3G4POYHC0/Rasi_Salai_Objects_Feb-128.jpg Objects I make silk scarves like this when I have free time [folds scarf on knee]. If I can’t sell them, I gift them to my children and grandchildren. This work is part of the government-funded career promotion program where they teach you to make something for an income.I couldn’t farm anymore in the wetlands after the dam construction, I lost 10 rais of land. https://www.visibleghosts.com/findings daily 0.75 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508324714-XFOS4JSR44HT2XT5OOKP/IMG-7739.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508283130-V8A7YS3Y3IV4ICPAFGEJ/IMG-7737.jpg Findings Elderly Development Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508416018-VI5GW07RGHOJRKWPIA8M/IMG-7741.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508439091-3LQCXRJK9EFC1CJ2WZ7V/IMG-7742.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508305930-GB1CWMWVNZAQJ24YJS14/Large+JPG-20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Findings Non-Timber Forest Products from Wetlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508352101-ZFZ7NZVLKGJST2JV3NL2/image-asset.jpeg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508461166-QRW8E5A19OMZWLAT6ASV/IMG-7743.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596508490471-SBYYP29RZNEAFAAD15SJ/IMG-7744.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1595697451004-P17QDPXBC39QV9V10L96/103120230_709006539898608_771506522899038408_n.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1595697482447-5R8WNFTW2Z17Q15Z0CZA/104475240_2891670314294011_2034435494461680333_n.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507609551-3MXWU625POMAZ6EE1D9G/IMG-7737.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1595697625627-02UP73H1E6PJ6T10B4O6/104340680_2604439303102356_2395820547953239322_n.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507609728-GIYRPIM8UN4SFK1R6OM7/IMG-7738.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507612454-W68BC5L6QX7C9L4ZT9DZ/IMG-7739.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507615993-0XWQ5O5CARMEEX3O7H0M/IMG-7740.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507618943-STE8GA076MEQRRMHRRXE/IMG-7741.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507615589-PHHGZQ7CW5MJQXGVMGY6/IMG-7742.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507620135-3BXNCV7HSQKA60TGOQXB/IMG-7743.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507621386-DL99UH62ZSK8RYA0V29V/IMG-7744.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507619274-DQGYH653CSTP0D4TV41T/IMG-7745.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596507621243-E0KB8K3I8QBUSMR4W4FN/IMG-7747.jpg Findings https://www.visibleghosts.com/methodology daily 0.75 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591849011920-SD9F8J3OMRBDUPXC64BG/IMG_2906.jpg Explore the Data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591849052458-NSB7EW5QPDHOT2O9FLP6/IMG_2847.jpg Explore the Data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1591848973710-KPBRY4UTHWVSD1A900E1/DSC02366.jpg Explore the Data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593133720176-DDOEIWCWKDCAYXJZXV44/photo_1.jpg Explore the Data "I took a picture of this community grocery store because I am impressed with it. Everyone here can participate in managing the store. When we first built the grocery store, we raised funds and then we bought this piece of land. And also, we got funding from the government, it was a project called SME, from a long time ago. So, we started from that and then we put our money to buy the piece of land and then we made it communal. Everyone could get involved and we decided to have this grocery store to generate our income by putting our share in the store." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593134029285-DMXNN4ZUEFKO6LQTY3Q6/photo_0.jpg Explore the Data "This fishing gear is called 'jaan.' I use it to catch fish." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593134273261-QQ564CUBNYOGZD2ITVMK/photo_3.jpg Explore the Data "I use this stick to get red ant eggs. I made it myself. Before the dam construction, you could find the red ant eggs so easily, and they live on a very low tree, so it’s easy to get them. But now you can tell that my stick is very long because nowadays red ants live on tall trees and it’s very hard to find them. There’s not a lot in the past days, and when I go out hunting for the red ant eggs I have to stand on the boat. I have to use my legs to balance myself- it’s hard to hunt the ants nowadays." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593134030545-IUIZ6A2PKBI1FRFNMA51/photo_1+copy.jpg Explore the Data "This fishing net is called 'Dan Glua' in Isaan. It’s a good fishing gear. It can create income in my family. When I catch fish, I can sell fish for 200 or 300 baht. But I don’t get to use it a lot these days." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593134166219-WDNOYQGTZ0JF7MS3S1GS/photo_3.jpg Explore the Data "I took a picture of the jackfruit tree over there and also the rice field. This is off-season rice, we grow rice here. But before, we would go to the wetlands to grow rice, but we cannot do that anymore after the dam's construction." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593133721550-TXA26ZD4UJN2QTZZMIRX/photo_2.jpg Explore the Data "This communal racing boat belongs to Dong Daeng Temple. People in 4 or 5 different villages put the money to buy the boat. We bought the boat so that we can join the racing boats competition. It's good because people in the community can exercise by doing the boat racing. This year, we have already started to rehearse to practice. Tomorrow, we are also going to do the practice to join the annual competition. Last year we got seven awards from the competition. It's water sports for our community." https://www.visibleghosts.com/why daily 0.75 2020-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592261589174-LJSHLY5FB9YTH11S3APR/Screen+Shot+2020-06-15+at+3.52.05+PM.png Why? - Crest of the Mun River The Mun River flows through five provinces of Thailand. Our logo uses five circles based on the tributary’s bend at the Rasi Salai dam site. The ghost-like shape represents villager’s connection to the river basin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594625987297-AT8IFJANZUP05W2DU52F/IMG_4504.jpg Why? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594694098314-PMTLJD57DXUK7T471DJO/VG4.jpg Why? I began to understand each step in this project as different platforms for storytelling that built off each other. My team and I focused on how space and place can impact power dynamics, trust, and agency. The survey is the least intimate and most basic form of information sharing because it collects quantitative responses. However, it primed citizen scientists to expand on the survey’s topics more autonomously during the walk; citizen scientists lead the route and decide what they want to share via photos and audio narratives. We then offered the option to partake in our object-based storytelling prompt. This was the most intimate version of storytelling, as participants often invited my translator and I to their kitchen table for a free-flowing interview. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592261385197-DJBGKHDB7Y0OK4HPDMPY/49621201587_02e59f2ec1_b.jpg Why? - Ghosts As Protectors of Land and Livelihoods Hundreds of spirits live in the Dong Phu Din forest in Rasi Salai, known as “the capital city of spirits.” Villagers’ faith in these ghosts and their relationship to the land are deeply intertwined, and rooted in over three centuries of tradition. Every April and October, villagers ask the avatars to bless their farmland for good harvests and growing seasons during "buang suang chao pho dong pho din” ceremonies. Many villagers in Rasi Salai use such nature festivals, ghost stories, and folklore as a creative protest tool to catalogue the ways the dam has irreparably altered the river and damaged their way of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1592260439166-KNTFQXJ8S27RQSGT9J7J/null-16-e1576723436284.jpg Why? - Voices from the Margins In December 2019, I attended Isaan Human Rights Festival at Ubon Rathcathani University. The annual event gathers communities from across the northeast region, including activists, scholars, students, and foreign diplomats. I heard directly from local land rights defenders affected by development projects and government policy, many of whom discussed feeling like “invisible citizens.” Sompong Viengchan, a long-time activist opposing the Pak Mun Dam, discussed the need to collectively push for social change and elevate local voices. “We have to make a stand, make a fuss, and make some noise.” Photo Credit: Adithep Chanthep/The Isaan Record https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594693783912-ITC33J742Y7MXE0ZRW1N/VG1.jpg Why? My experiences in public health storytelling, use of the Discovery Tool in New Orleans, and basic understanding of the political ecology of Isaan made me uniquely positioned to gather and share these stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594693921377-J4K9N7U0DYM09AS0NIBO/VG3.jpeg Why? The Rasi Salai community is keen on elevating the profile of their movement concerning the environment, culture, nature, and livelihood. Human rights defenders here have been the target of judicial harassment due to their outspoken roles in the defense of land rights and environmental justice. My academic position allowed a certain degree of independence to share stories with deep socio-political themes. A range of creative works have inspired my work in place-based storytelling, including Glenna Gordon’s photography work on the power of objects to tell stories; Museum of Broken Relationships’ collection of extra[ordinary] mementos; Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker’s Unfathomable City; and CityLab’s Maps of Life Under Lockdown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594693890568-P1ZMG48LJT8HMI16YYDS/VG2.jpg Why? Since studying abroad in Thailand in 2017, I stayed connected to public health and land rights issues in Isaan through Radical Grandma Collective, Isaan Record, and ENGAGE. In 2019, community leaders in Rasi Salai and faculty at Ubon Ratchathani University and Khon Kaen University expressed interest in hosting me as a researcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1593131871786-OO6YWD97T98Z0QZ02NDC/105596653_833126903762180_3803548857919540478_n.jpg Why? - Citizen science, an approach originally utilized by the disciplines of ecology and environmental science, involves members of the public collaborating with researchers to lead research projects. Extractive projects combined with villagers’ deep-rooted culture of belongingness have left them understandably distrustful of outsiders. Starting in 2001, Rasi Salai villagers welcomed “Thai Baan” research when local fishermen served as citizen scientists to collect data on changes to the river. Building on this introduction to citizen science, I used the Discovery Tool, an app–based environment assessment tool that provides contextual data about walking routes and environmental features. T he tool has been adopted seamlessly in diverse communities across 20+ countries and proven powerful in building trust between researchers and citizen scientists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1594622898374-5JVTXCA716EH4MRRMPSH/Map_HelenWieffering_0620-page-001.jpg Why? https://www.visibleghosts.com/library-1 daily 0.75 2020-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1595698901888-0GDDNOE67M7WCHWM75HE/Orange+White+Simple+Formal+Library+Accelerated+Reader+Certificate.png Library - Consider these critical political ecology questions as your explore the literature: How do unequal relations in and among societies affect the natural environment and population health? How can locally held knowledge and power politics influence climate adaptation policy? How have societal values shaped our relationship with nature and what new cultural narratives can combat today’s environmental crisis? https://www.visibleghosts.com/team-2 daily 0.75 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596514306958-Z90UNRJHSS8YUJ4HR009/IMG-7739.jpg Findings Local products can be made from natural resources, help people make extra income, and are used in households. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596515110230-PVC8HX119K5C39TOOH5Z/IMG-7742.jpg Findings People take pride in producing their own food to reduce household expenses. Plants and vegetables can be processed to be kept longer, and people can sell fresh produce. After the dam construction, there was no space to raise cattle, and since, the number of people who have cattle has become smaller. We propose that the government should provide space to raise cattle, along with other career promotion opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596516024941-0CQCG1PXUBG6RCPFQW89/IMG-7740.jpg Findings Religion and beliefs help people maintain the local traditions, and are the spirit anchors of the community members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596515421378-Z1KINXYI7MIDZ3JOLJXA/IMG-7747.jpg Findings Before the dam, the wetlands provided abundant food and natural resources to the community. Now, this way of life has disappeared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596516113060-OVLIBU4MGO31YO7YPF19/IMG-7744.jpg Findings Fish can be processed into dry food and helps people make a living. After the dam, fish numbers have plummeted, gear is increasingly more expensive, and there are new rules and limitations around fishing. We propose creating more fish reservation zones and banning fishing during the breeding season in more areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596516455855-JDWFP073JLMZKFQ2JI3Q/IMG-7743.jpg Findings Each village shares the natural resources in the forest community. We propose building fire barriers to protect this vital resource. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596562063738-MFKGLOVPF5CV61WCWGEO/103120230_709006539898608_771506522899038408_n.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596514244119-63TGVWZU5JFJXS1WYIRC/IMG-7738.jpg Findings NTFPs can be used as food for people in the community and be made into dry food. People can make a living from selling NTFPs. After the dam construction, the number of NTFPs has decreased. We suggest growing wetland plants at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596562371919-3MTWIPBWX1GRFV66ALBB/104475240_2891670314294011_2034435494461680333_n.jpg Findings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596514908692-KTJ9RGWNW3ADGQNYZFZI/image-asset.jpeg Findings These gathering places allow community members to exchange knowledge, and serves as an exercise venue for the elderly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596516646583-2AQ1EVPWKJFZTAYCY2T3/IMG-7745.jpg Findings Community members work together to manage the project, which helps to jobs. However, profits have decreased. We propose local authorities check on financial progress at least once or twice a year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596514608932-0EV1YGIU89G59LXMK0SS/IMG-7741.jpg Findings Vegetables can be used to cook in the family, and people can sell backyard vegetables for extra income. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7509d037e14629822a919/1596562185949-R74F738UMAGXVZJ00XTC/104340680_2604439303102356_2395820547953239322_n.jpg Findings