Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of International Politics at Manchester University. She is author or co-author of several books, including Killing for Conservation (2000), A Trip Too Far: Politics, Ecotourism and Exploitation (2002), and Nature Crime: How We’re Getting Conservation Wrong (forthcoming, 2010).
1 A Spectacular Eco-Tour around the Historic Bloc: Theorising the Convergence of Biodiversity Conservation and Capitalist Expansion
Jim Igoe, Katja Neves and Dan Brockington 17
2 The Devil is in the (Bio)diversity: Private Sector “Engagement” and the Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation
Kenneth Iain MacDonald 44
3 The Conservationist Mode of Production and Conservation NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa
Dan Brockington and Katherine Scholfield 82
4 Shifting Environmental Governance in a Neoliberal World: US AID for Conservation
Catherine Corson 108
5 Disconnected Nature: The Scaling Up of African Wildlife Foundation and its Impacts on Biodiversity Conservation and Local Livelihoods
Hassanali T. Sachedina 135
6 The Rich, the Powerful and the Endangered: Conservation Elites, Networks and the Dominican Republic
George Holmes 156
7 Conservative Philanthropists, Royalty and Business Elites in Nature Conservation in Southern Africa
Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels 179
8 Protecting the Environment the Natural Way: Ethical Consumption and Commodity Fetishism
James G. Carrier 203
9 Making the Market: Specialty Coffee, Generational Pitches, and Papua New Guinea
Paige West 221
10 Cashing in on Cetourism: A Critical Ecological Engagement with Dominant E-NGO Discourses on Whaling, Cetacean Conservation, and Whale Watching
Katja Neves 251
11 Neoliberalising Nature? Elephant-Back Tourism in Thailand and Botswana
Rosaleen Duffy and Lorraine Moore 274
12 The Receiving End of Reform: Everyday Responses to Neoliberalisation in Southeastern Mexico
Peter R.Wilshusen 299
Index 332
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