Open AccessA participatory action research on the care for water and life on Earth: a case study of interreligious and intercultural engagements in the time of the pandemic in Thailand
Author(s) -
Rey Ty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
caminhos de diálogo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2595-8208
pISSN - 2357-965X
DOI - 10.7213/cd.a9n15p156-176
Subject(s) - participatory action research , sustainability , action research , action (physics) , citizen journalism , political science , pandemic , sociology , covid-19 , environmental ethics , pedagogy , ecology , law , anthropology , medicine , philosophy , physics , disease , quantum mechanics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
This article presented a report on an ongoing research project that integrates culture, religion and the environment. Dialectically, the Bible guides this study in the same way that this project responded to the water crisis and the environmental realities obtaining in the real world today. The paper problematizes the lack of direct citizen action on the burning issue of caring for water and life on Earth. Specifically, this article presented a case study in Thailand that deals with a community participatory action research that involves environmental advocacy in the classroom at the university level on the one hand and environmental care through a planting project with the local intercultural and interreligious community on the other hand. The pandemic determines the ebb and flow of the progress of the project, including its sustainability.