Monica Lindberg Falk

Monica Lindberg Falk is vice-director, director of studies and researcher at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her doctoral dissertation addresses gender and religion in Thailand, analysed through the lens of the Thai Buddhist nuns' lives, actions and role in Thai society. Her research focuses on the interconnectedness of gender, religion and social change in South-East Asia.

Her research interests include gender, socially engaged Buddhism, anthropology of disaster, ethnography, new religious movements, women’s movements, education, religion and development and social change in South-East Asia. Her scholarship includes extensive fieldwork in Thailand. One of her current research projects is on gender and Buddhism’s role in the recovery process after the tsunami catastrophe in Thailand. The relation between beliefs, religion, social crises, social processes and local practices are placed at the centre of the research. Her contributions to Asian studies include a series of articles in English and Swedish on gender and Buddhism and the monograph Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand.

Publications

Books
Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2007) Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand. Copenhagen/Washington: NIAS Press and University of Washington Press. 

Articles
Falk, Monica, Lindberg (Forthcoming) 'Thai Buddhists' Encounters with International Relief Work in Post-Tsunami Thailand'. In Hiroko Kawanami and Derek Maher (eds.) Buddhism and International Relief Work. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2011 in press) 'Merit, Gender and Theravada Buddhist Practices in Times of Crises'. In John Harding (ed.) Studying Buddhism in Practice. Routledge.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2010) 'Buddhism blev livlinan efter tsunamin". In Tvärsnitt, Nr 4.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2010) ‘Recovery and Buddhist Practices in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Southern Thailand.’ In Religion. (2010: 2.) 

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2010) 'Feminism, Buddhism and Transnational Women’s Movements in Thailand'. In Mina Roces and Louice Edwards (eds.) Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism. London, New York: Routledge.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2010) 'The Struggle for Recognition and Justice: Gender Inequality and Socially Engaged Buddhism in Thailand'. In Helle Rydström, ed. Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting, and Recognizing Women and Men. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2009) 'Nya Buddhistiska rörelser i Thailand: Santi Asoke och socialt engagerad buddhism'. Aura. Akademisk Tidskrift för Nyandlighet. (2009: 1, 44–69).  
 
Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2009) ‘Women In Between: Becoming Religious Persons in Thailand.’ In Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds) Women in Asia. Critical Concepts in Asian Studies. Vol. IV. Constructions of the Feminine. London, New York: Routledge, 2009.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2008) 'Gender and Religious Legitimacy in Thailand'. In Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders. Wil Burghoorn, Qi Wang, Kazuki Iwanaga and Cecilia Milwertz, eds. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.  

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2006) 'Gender, Social Engagement and Religious Change in Thailand’. In Journal of Tai Culture, Volume 19. 2006. 

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2006) 'A silent undercurrent: The significance of nuns’ socially engaged Buddhist practice in Thailand'. In Karma Lekshe Tsomo ed. Out of the Shadows: Socially Engaged Buddhist Women. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2005) 'Genus och meritgivande allmosor i Thailand'. In Marja-Liisa Keinänen ed. Svensk Religionshistorisk Årsskrift, Stockholm.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2005) ‘Flodvågen  – Thailand: En nunnas reflektioner’. In Chakra: Tidskrift för Indiska Religioner, 2005 nr 3. 

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2004) ‘Thailändsk Bhikkhuni-sangha: Mor och dotter förändrar den monastiska ordningen’. In Chakra: Tidskrift för Indiska religioner, 2004 nr. 1.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2003) 'Nunnor och kvinnliga munkar. Förändring och utmaning av den buddhistiska ordningen i Thailand'. In Kvinnovetenskaplig Tidskrift, 2003 nr. 3/4: 25-38.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2000) 'Women In Between: Becoming Religious Persons in Thailand'. In Ellison Banks Findly ed. Women’s Buddhism Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal Boston: Wisdom Publication.

Falk, Monica, Lindberg (2000) 'Thammacarini Witthaya: The First Buddhist School for Girls in Thailand'. In Karma Lekshe Tsomo ed. Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
 

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