Chapter 8 Tsunami, Tourism and Threats to Local Livelihoods: The Case of Indigenous Sea Nomads in Southern Thailand

摘要: Abstract The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami had a deep and long-term impact on communities along Thailand’s Andaman Coast. In this chapter, the authors examine how three of indigenous, formerly seafaring people (chao leh) have been affected by post-tsunami tourism developments. Taking Devine Ojeda’s (2017) concept ‘violent geographies’ as theoretical lens, analyse various practices dispossession, including enclosure, extraction, erasure, commodification, destructive creation neo-colonialism. The findings chapter suggest that all found themselves subjected to radical transformations their socioeconomic cultural environment, yet in distinctive ways with varying degrees agency.