Using the Master's Tools? Neoliberal Conservation and the Evasion of Inequality

By R. Fletcher. 2012

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Strategy and Management

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Bram Büscher
2. E. Corbera
3. Emma Hughes
4. R. Scheyvens
5. C. Cavanagh
6. T. Benjaminsen
7. R. Fletcher

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Bram Büscher
2. E. Corbera
3. R. Fletcher
4. Emma Hughes
5. R. Scheyvens
6. C. Cavanagh
7. T. Benjaminsen
8. Elizabeth Shapiro‐Garza

In Strategy and Management

1. Bram Büscher
2. E. Corbera
3. Emma Hughes
4. R. Scheyvens
5. C. Cavanagh
6. T. Benjaminsen
7. R. Fletcher

Citations in the corpus

• Can ecotourism deliver real economic, social, and environmental benefits? A study of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica (2015, background): “In Osa, what Fletcher (2012) calls the “Master’s Tools” (instruments of neoliberal capitalism) thus appear to be helping with both poverty and local access to resources.”
• Accumulation by Conservation (2014, background): “This trend – the increasing convergence of neoliberal capitalism and environmental conservation – has become subject to a growing critique over the last decade under the rubrics ‘neoliberal conservation’ or ‘NatureTM Inc.’ Yet while this discussion has developed a number of useful lines of analysis,”
• Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services (2012, background): “Several studies reveal that PES – including emerging carbon and REDD+ pilot projects – enhance inequalities in income and access to resources, particularly when pro-poor management measures are not adopted [58 ,72,73], as well as create economic enclosures through territorialization for biodiversity”
• Virtual nature, violent accumulation: The ‘spectacular failure’ of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park (2014, background): “…engaged with the production of ostensibly ‘socio-natural’ commodities (Arsel and Büscher, 2012; Büscher and Arsel, 2012; Büscher et al., 2014; Fletcher, 2012; Peluso, 2012; Roth and Dressler, 2012), and especially so within the politicized context of global environmental change (McAfee,…”
• The PES Conceit: Revisiting the Relationship between Payments for Environmental Services and Neoliberal Conservation (2017, background): “2016) while often exacerbating socioeconomic inequality as well (Fletcher 2012), among numerous other negative con-”
• Can tourism help to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”? The challenge of tourism addressing SDG1 (2019, background): “When it is widely acknowledged that neoliberal mechanisms have led to social inequalities (see Fletcher, 2012; Murray & Overton, 2011), it follows that these same mechanisms should not be relied on to try to solve inequalities (Kumi et al., 2014, p. 549).”