Lessons from the Khanom nuclear power plant conflict: community resistance, discursive strategies, and sustainable development in southern Thailand

This study contributes to sociological debates on development, social movements, and sustainability by demonstrating how grassroots resistance operates through discursive reconfiguration rather than oppositional protest alone. It highlights the role of knowledge brokerage in shaping collective action and underscores the need for energy governance reforms in Thailand that institutionalize meaningful public participation, ensure transparent and independent EIAs, and recognize community-led alternatives within national energy planning frameworks.