RT Article
T1 Equitable Access to Nature and Transformational Politics
JF Buddhist Christian studies
VO 44
SP 169
OP 173
A1 Thasiah, Victor
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1909083763
AB Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's (1926-2022) account of the nearly two years he spent as a fugitive in the Dai Lao Forest among the Indigenous Highlanders of Vietnam in his memoir Fragrant Palm Leaves demonstrates the transformational political potential associated with such access to nature. Based on this and recent work like Tiya Miles's 2023 book Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, I propose that contemporary environmental activism toward more equitable access to nature in the United States should better highlight this transformational political potential—understood as dismantling systemic ecological and social injustice—in addition to offering public and mental health benefits.
K1 Thich Nhat Hanh
K1 Vietnamese Buddhism
K1 Zen Buddhism
K1 ENVIRONMENTAL activism
K1 equitable access to nature
K1 transformational politics
DO 10.1353/bcs.2024.a940774