Pornpet Muensri
Pornpet Muensri[a] (Thai: พรเพชร เหมือนศรี) was a Thai land rights activist.[1][2]
Pornpet led a four decade campaign to protect the land she had grown up on in Nong Bua District of Nakhon Sawan Province from government expropriation, including leading a 400-day protest sleeping on the streets of Bangkok, riding a water buffalo around the office of the Prime Minister, and nearly self-immolated.[3][4]
Death and legacy
Pornpet was killed on 31 May 2004 by an unknown assailant in Nong Bua District.[3]
Pornpet was featured in "My 'W/ri[gh]t/E' and My Land: A Postcolonial Feminist Study on Grassroots' Archives and Autobiography" by Thai author Sinith Sittirak, a book focusing on land rights issues in Nakhon Sawan Province.[2][5] Sinith founder the Thai Grassroots Women's Archive and Research (TGWAR) to preserve Pornpet's records and life work.[2]
Pornpet is the subject of the forthcoming "The Story of Pornpet Muensri" by British photographer Luke Duggleby and Thai journalist Nicha Wachpanich.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Other spellings include Meuansri
References
- ↑ ปานมีศรี-ภาพ, พนิดา สงวนเสรีวานิช-เรื่อง, ภิญโญ (2018-03-04). "สินิทธ์ สิทธิรักษ์ เปิดโลกใบใหม่สตรีศึกษา ผ่าน 'จดหมายเหตุ' นักประท้วงบนหลังควาย" (in Thai). Retrieved 2026-07-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 1 2 3 Admin (2026-01-09). "A [Trail and] Tale of Thai Grassroots Women's Archive and Research (TGWAR) - Under The Banana Tree". Retrieved 2026-07-22.
- 1 2 3 "THE STORY OF PORNPET MUENSRI by Luke Duggleby". Visura. Retrieved 2026-07-22.
- ↑ พวงจันทร์, พงศภัค (2024-12-03). "พรเพชร เหมือนศรี : หญิงชาวไร่ผู้ประท้วงโดยการขี่ควายและประกาศเผาตัวเองหน้าทำเนียบ". thepeople. Retrieved 2026-07-22.
- ↑ ""My 'W/ri[gh]t/E' and My Land": A Postcolonial Feminist Study on Grassroots' Archives and Autobiography (1937-2004)". openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz. doi:10.26686/wgtn.17006650. Retrieved 2026-07-22.