Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age

Contents

Contents Introduction. Nature™ Inc.: The New Frontiers of Environmental Conservation  3 Robert Fletcher, Wolfram Dressler, and Bram Büscher Part I. Nature™ Inc.–Society Entanglements 1. Capitalizing Conservation on Palawan Island, the Philippines   25 Wolfram Dressler 2. Orchestrating Nature: Ethnographies of Nature™ Inc.  44 Kenneth Iain MacDonald and Catherine Corson 3. Nature, Villagers, and the State: Resistance Politics from Protected Areas in Zimbabwe   66 Frank Matose Part II. Representations of Nature™ Inc. 4. Taking the Chocolate Laxative: Why Neoliberal Conservation “Fails Forward”  87 Robert Fletcher 5. Celebrity Spectacle, Post-Democratic Politics, and Nature™ Inc.  108 Dan Brockington 6. Capitalizing Conservation/Development: Dissimulation, Misrecognition, and the Erasure of Power   127 Peter R. Wilshusen 7. Performative Equations and Neoliberal Commodification: The Case of Climate   158 Larry Lohmann vi • Contents Part III. Nature on the Move: The Global Circulation of Natural Capital 8. Nature on the Move I: The Value and Circulation of Liquid Nature and the Emergence of Fictitious Conservation   183 Bram Büscher 9. Nature on the Move II: Contemplation Becomes Speculation   205 Jim Igoe 10. Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an Animate Nature  222 Sian Sullivan Conclusion. The Limits of Nature™ Inc. and the Search for Vital Alternatives  246 Wolfram Dressler, Bram Büscher, and Robert Fletcher Bibliography  255 Contributors  287 Index  291 Nature™ Inc. ...