Robert Fletcher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3616191 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Fletcher |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Fletcher |
| ASSINATURA | FLETCHER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Netherlands Institute of Ecology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 98 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 593 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1889 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Planetary Political Ecology
A growing body of literature has recently adopted and advanced a newfound planetary perspective to explore its implications for understanding and influencing environmental and developmental politics and planning. It asserts that the focus on globalization that has dominated discussions of the international world order for the past several decades is increasingly being overtaken by contemporary dynamics that signal the need for a new conceptual fr…
Coexistence 2.0? How interactions between humans and wildlife are mediated in Web 2.0 space
The article explores what we term “coexistence 2.0”: the simultaneous separation of people and wildlife in physical space and their reconnection online. Our discussion builds on a growing body of research examining the uptake of web 2.0 platforms by conservation organizations to encourage virtual connection with nature, often characterized as “nature 2.0”. Yet within this prolific nature 2.0 literature, the particular dynamic of coexistence 2.0 h…
Tourism and neoliberalism
While tourism has been a core feature of the global economy for more than a century, over the past several decades, it has been a central component of a worldwide process of neoliberalization in particular. Neoliberalization describes a political-economic programme of 'free trade' embodying interrelated principles of deregulation, decentralization, marketization, privatization and commodification. Grounded in a critique of the post-war welfare st…
From Green to Black
Within political ecology research, a dominant focus on the hard physicality of the world limits engagement with how events taking place on land mediate and are mediated by other material spaces like the atmosphere. This paper engages with burgeoning research on the extraction-conservation nexus to highlight how the clearly demarcated land-based boundaries on which nexus thinking relies limit an awareness of how processes of conservation and extra…
Securing conservation Lebensraum? The geo-, bio-, and ontopolitics of global conservation futures
The geographical concept of Lebensraum (“living space”) was coined most significantly by the German scholar Friedrich Ratzel towards the end of the nineteenth century. Through the lens of Lebensraum, Ratzel reformulated Darwin’s conception of evolution as a “struggle for life” into a “struggle for space”, highlighting how nonhuman species – as well as biologically conceived human 'races', nations, states, and empires – grew organically in space a…
Fortress tourism
This paper examines the role of tourism in promoting peace around transboundary protected areas (TBPA) in conflict-affected regions through a case study of the Virunga TBPA straddling the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Also praised as ‘peace parks’, TBPAs embody the rationale that stimulating a tourism economy in shared conservation spaces will provide incentives for formerly antagonistic states and actors to cooperate. Virunga …
Knowing bears
This article explores a case of human-wildlife cohabitation in the Rodopi mountains of Bulgaria, wherein people and brown bears ( Ursus arctos) have adapted to living together in relative harmony. While this is due to a variety of factors, chief among these is the way both people and bears appear to pursue knowledge of one another and act on this knowledge so as to actively minimize potential for conflict. We draw on this case to contribute to gr…
Malthus in Smith Clothing
In this op-ed, Robert Fletcher reviews The Dasgupta Review, a report commissioned by the UK Treasury Department on The Economics of Biodiversity, which was released in February 2021. Fletcher argues that rather than offering a fresh or timely analysis of biodiversity loss and how to counter it, the Review continues a long line of similar reports that leave capitalism in the background as a given, and lay blame for what ails the world at the feet …
Donors on tour
Increasingly NGOs organize trips for their ‘major donors’ to visit development projects with the aim to enhance funding streams and fortify donor relations. Building on growing discussions of ‘philanthrocapitalism’ as a novel form of international development financing, we analyze such ‘donor trips’ as a unique tourism niche termed ‘philanthrotourism’. Based on empirical research concerning two such trips to Sub-Saharan Africa, we argue that phil…
Neoliberal Conservation
Neoliberal conservation describes a dynamic wherein prominent organizations around the world concerned with biodiversity protection have increasingly adopted strategies and mechanisms that seek to reconcile conservation with economic development by harnessing economic markets as putative mechanisms for financing nature conservation. Since the turn of the millennium, a vibrant discussion around this topic has arisen across anthropology, geography,…
Popular Philanthrocapitalism? The Potential and Pitfalls of Online Empowerment in “Free” Nature 2.0 Initiatives
This article investigates assertions that new philanthropic web 2.0 initiatives can empower Internet users to further social and environmental change. It focuses on two ostensibly “free” web 2.0 initiatives aimed at nature conservation: “Greenvolved” and “Safari Challenge Zoo Adventure.” With Greenvolved, clicking on one’s favorite projects is supposed to support conservation initiatives whereas in Safari Challenge users interact through gaming o…
Ecolaboratory
Tourism and Degrowth
Conservation Revolution
Diverse ecologies
This article outlines a novel framework for investigating complex intersections among divergent approaches to enacting environmental governance. I term this the study of "diverse ecologies." The framework builds on J.K. Gibson-Graham's influential "diverse economies" perspective but seeks to integrate this with research in political ecology that devotes greater attention to issues of structural power. In particular, the article draws on growing a…
Beyond the green panopticon
This introduction to the special collection explores how a revised or expanded understanding of 'environmentality' can further our analysis of the evermore complex terrain of environmental politics today. We offer an outline of the literature from which the discussion emerges and how the subsequent articles both engage with and depart from it. We describe the origin of the 'green governmentality' discussion following the rise of global sustainabl…
Tourism and degrowth
This article outlines a conceptual framework and research agenda for exploring the relationship between tourism and degrowth. Rapid and uneven expansion of tourism as a response to the 2008 economic crisis has proceeded in parallel with the rise of social discontent concerning so-called “overtourism.” Despite decades of concerted global effort to achieve sustainable development, meanwhile, socioecological conflicts and inequality have rarely reve…
Baptista, João Afonso
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Connection with nature is an oxymoron
It has become commonplace to argue that greater “connection with nature” is needed to mobilize support for both biodiversity conservation and environmentalism generally, and hence to call for more effective environmental education to achieve this. I employ a political ecology lens to problematize this increasingly conventional wisdom by highlighting the ways in which a sense of separation from “nature” is in fact paradoxically reinforced by the v…
Environmentality unbound
License to Kill
The predominant focus within the growing body of research addressing 'green violence' – that employed in the name of protecting nonhuman natures – has been the exercise of such violence by representatives of nation-state regimes. Largely overlooked thus far, therefore, is a remarkably similar discussion conducted among civil society environmental activists, who have long debated the legitimacy of employing analogous forms of violence in their own…
Questioning Redd+ and the future of market‐based conservation
Gaming conservation
Nature Inc
With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? NatureTM Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.
Blinded by the stars? Celebrity, fantasy, and desire in neoliberal environmental governance
The growing prominence of celebrities within the global environmental movement – and their power to shape and advance this movement’s aims – has been a burgeoning focus of recent research. Thus far, such analysis has viewed the phenomenon primarily through a political economy lens, contending that celebrity is harnessed to further the agenda of a mainstream environmental movement which has become increasingly conjoined with neoliberal capitalism,…
Accumulation by Conservation
Following the financial crisis and its aftermath, it is clear that the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation have become even more intense and plunged the global economy into unprecedented turmoil and urgency. Governments, business leaders and other elite agents are frantically searching for a new, more stable mode of accumulation. Arguably the most promising is what we call 'Accumulation by Conservation' (AbC): a mode of accumulatio…
Environmentality unbound
Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion
This article contends that international tourism may be one important means by which the capitalist world-economy seeks to sustain itself in the face of inherent contradictions that threaten its long-term survival. Marxist critics have long identified an inevitable tendency towards crises of overproduction (over-accumulation) within the capitalist system, provoked by what Marx termed the central contradiction between imperatives of production and…
What are we fighting for? Rethinking resistance in a Pewenche community in Chile
The contradictory reactions by members of an indigenous group in southern Chile to the prospect of their displacement by a hydroelectric dam presents an opportunity to reconceptualize 'resistance', studies of which have come under increasing attack in recent years. Using this case, I explore contemporary perspectives on 'subaltern' struggle and propose an alternative framework for the interpretation of this phenomenon that seeks to salvage a viab…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
There is often a substantial gap between 'vision' and 'execution' in neoliberal governance, yet this gap is rarely acknowledged within neoliberal discourse. In the realm of environmental governance this has manifested in increased reliance on neoliberal conservation strategies despite mounting evidence concerning their common failure to perform as intended. This paper seeks to explain this contradictory situation, drawing on Foucaultian as well a…
Using the Master's Tools? Neoliberal Conservation and the Evasion of Inequality
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's HouseAudre Lorde (1983)ABSTRACT Recently, a number of prominent conservationists have declared the last quarter century of global efforts to unite conservation and development through so-called integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) an overwhelming failure, asserting that there are likely to be irreconcilable trade-offs between environmental preservation and enhancing human we…
Contradictions in Tourism
This article reviews an interdisciplinary literature exploring the relationship between tourism and capitalism focused on ecotourism in particular. One of this literature's most salient features is to highlight ecotourism's function in employing capitalist mechanisms to address problems of capitalist development itself by attempting to resolve a series of contradictions intrinsic to the accumulation process, including: economic stagnation due to …
The Art of Forgetting
This article explores the implications of a phenomenon that, following Renato Rosaldo's influential discussion of ‘imperialist nostalgia’, I call ‘imperialist amnesia’: the fetishistic disavowal of the legacy of European colonisation within contemporary postcolonial societies. I describe the manifestation of this amnesia in discourses as diverse as academic scholarship, international development and travel writing. Observing the recurrence of imp…
Gaming conservation
Orchestrating Consent
This article reports on the results of a collaborative event ethnography (CEE) conducted at the 2012 World Conservation Congress (WCC) on Jeju Island, South Korea. The WCC is organised every four years by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which bills the Congress as the world's most important conservation forum. Hence, analysis of the event illuminates current and future trends in the global conservation movement. Thi…
Diverse ecologies
This article outlines a novel framework for investigating complex intersections among divergent approaches to enacting environmental governance. I term this the study of "diverse ecologies." The framework builds on J.K. Gibson-Graham's influential "diverse economies" perspective but seeks to integrate this with research in political ecology that devotes greater attention to issues of structural power. In particular, the article draws on growing a…
License to Kill
The predominant focus within the growing body of research addressing 'green violence' – that employed in the name of protecting nonhuman natures – has been the exercise of such violence by representatives of nation-state regimes. Largely overlooked thus far, therefore, is a remarkably similar discussion conducted among civil society environmental activists, who have long debated the legitimacy of employing analogous forms of violence in their own…
Tourism and neoliberalism
While tourism has been a core feature of the global economy for more than a century, over the past several decades, it has been a central component of a worldwide process of neoliberalization in particular. Neoliberalization describes a political-economic programme of 'free trade' embodying interrelated principles of deregulation, decentralization, marketization, privatization and commodification. Grounded in a critique of the post-war welfare st…
Nature Inc
With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? NatureTM Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.
The Emperor's New Adventure
This study suggests that successful commercial adventure tourism requires the construction of a "public secret"-something commonly known but not articulated-whereby tourists are able to maintain the contradictory perceptions that they are simultaneously safe and at risk. Previous research has observed that adventure tourism appears to embody a paradox in its attempt to deliver a planned, controlled version of an activity usually defined as danger…
Beyond the green panopticon
This introduction to the special collection explores how a revised or expanded understanding of 'environmentality' can further our analysis of the evermore complex terrain of environmental politics today. We offer an outline of the literature from which the discussion emerges and how the subsequent articles both engage with and depart from it. We describe the origin of the 'green governmentality' discussion following the rise of global sustainabl…
Barbarian hordes
Despite sustained critique of a neo-Malthusian focus on ‘overpopulation’, the issue continues to resurface regularly within international development discourse, particularly with respect to ‘sustainable’ development in relation to growing environmental security concerns. This suggests that the issue defies purely rational evaluation, operating on a deeper psychodynamic register. In this paper we therefore analyse the population question as a ‘sca…
Knowing bears
This article explores a case of human-wildlife cohabitation in the Rodopi mountains of Bulgaria, wherein people and brown bears ( Ursus arctos) have adapted to living together in relative harmony. While this is due to a variety of factors, chief among these is the way both people and bears appear to pursue knowledge of one another and act on this knowledge so as to actively minimize potential for conflict. We draw on this case to contribute to gr…
Blinded by the stars? Celebrity, fantasy, and desire in neoliberal environmental governance
The growing prominence of celebrities within the global environmental movement – and their power to shape and advance this movement’s aims – has been a burgeoning focus of recent research. Thus far, such analysis has viewed the phenomenon primarily through a political economy lens, contending that celebrity is harnessed to further the agenda of a mainstream environmental movement which has become increasingly conjoined with neoliberal capitalism,…
Cancer Prevention Among Working Class, Multiethnic Adults
Objectives. We analyzed outcomes from a study that examined social-contextual factors in cancer prevention interventions for working class, multiethnic populations. Methods. Ten community health centers were randomized to intervention or to control. Patients who resided in low-income, multiethnic neighborhoods were eligible; the intervention targeted fruit and vegetable consumption, red meat consumption, multivitamin intake, and physical activity…
Developing a comprehensive community care system for the mentally Ill/mentally retarded
From Green to Black
Within political ecology research, a dominant focus on the hard physicality of the world limits engagement with how events taking place on land mediate and are mediated by other material spaces like the atmosphere. This paper engages with burgeoning research on the extraction-conservation nexus to highlight how the clearly demarcated land-based boundaries on which nexus thinking relies limit an awareness of how processes of conservation and extra…
The Fieldworker's Magic
The New School of Criminal Anthropology
Securing conservation Lebensraum? The geo-, bio-, and ontopolitics of global conservation futures
The geographical concept of Lebensraum (“living space”) was coined most significantly by the German scholar Friedrich Ratzel towards the end of the nineteenth century. Through the lens of Lebensraum, Ratzel reformulated Darwin’s conception of evolution as a “struggle for life” into a “struggle for space”, highlighting how nonhuman species – as well as biologically conceived human 'races', nations, states, and empires – grew organically in space a…
Den östgrönlandske Expedition, udfört i Havene 1883–'5, under Ledelse af G. Holm. Kjöbenhavn
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
Myths of the Robin Redbreast in Early English Poetry
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
The New School of Criminal Anthropology
The Vigor and Expressiveness of Older English
A new observance has, to a limited extent, obtained a foot-hold in our society, the delivery, namely, of an address at the meeting nearest to the Christmas holidays, which shall not necessarily relate to anthropology, except in its broadest sense, but belong rather to the domain of art or letters, and be, it is hoped, of interest to invited guests as well as to members at this hospitable season.We can for one evening leave our Indian brother at p…
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
Ministères de la marine et de l‘ Instruction publique. Mission scientifique du Cap Horn. 1882–1883
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A Quarterly Bibliography
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
The Poet-is He Born, Not Made
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
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