Living with the Changing Sea: A Participatory Video and Storybook from Baan Yaimom community

About this event

Small-scale fishery communities in Thailand play a vital ecological and social role, but face mounting threats including due to unclear tenure arrangements, economic pressures, and climate change. At this event organized for Bangkok Climate Action Week (BCAW), a community participatory video created in Baan Yaimom village, Trat Province will be screened and discussed. The film was created with residents from Baan Yaimom village, who helped document their histories, spatial practices, and legal struggles. The video, together with a community storybook, shows how communities can make their “invisible rights” visible asserting customary claims and collective knowledge. The research that created the community participatory video and storybook has been prepared through the Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program. This interdisciplinary fellowship and research programme emphasizes co-produced knowledge grounded in the lived experience of community members to inform policy that supports grassroots-led climate adaptation. The panel discussion at this event will connect community and civil society experience with participatory research approaches, and broader issues of policy, climate change, and socio-economic transformation to collectively identify ways forward that are sustainable and socially just in Thailand and beyond.