Robert Fletcher
Neoliberal environmentality: Towards a poststructuralist political ecology of the conservation debate
University for Peace
article proposes foucaultian poststructuralist framework understanding different positions within contemporary debate concerning appropriate biodiversity conservation policy embodying distinctive environmentalities recentlyreleased work michel foucault describes neoliberal form familiar concept governmentality quite different conventional understandings oftcited analytic following suggest neoliberalisation within natural resource policy understood expression neoliberal environmentality similarly distinct recent discussions employing environmentality concept addition follow foucault describing several discrete environmentalities embodied competing approaches conservation policy finally ask whether political ecologists critiques mainstream conservation might viewed expression yet another environmentality foregrounding concerns social equity environmental justice call conceptualisation might look like