Ronald Fletcher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 84801 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronald Fletcher |
| PRENOMES | Ronald |
| SOBRENOME | Fletcher |
| ASSINATURA | FLETCHER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5365-1697 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 133 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 907 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1889 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Degrowing desire
Rapidly expanding discussion of the potential to enact degrowth within political ecology and related fields has thus far focused primarily on political, economic, cultural and environmental dynamics either inhibiting or facilitating degrowth at both micro and macro scales. While such issues are of course important, researchers have also highlighted the significance of attention to more intimate (inter- and intra-personal) dynamics also influencin…
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…
Fair vs. fake touristic degrowth
This contribution aims to advance consideration of the potential and pitfalls entailed in discussions of degrowth within tourism development. Many mass tourist destinations suffer from saturation impacting local working conditions, access to housing and the collective enjoyment of public goods, among the many common drawbacks of so-called ‘overtourism’. Yet proposals to address the negative impacts of mass tourism can become contradictory or even…
Multispecies Constitutionality
The question of the role of non-humans in conservation has given rise to a number of pressing debates. Proponents of ecocentrism, multispecies ethnography or the post-human turn have all aimed to promote more-than-human perspectives and attribute equal importance to all forms of (animate) life. However, their relative failure to translate this advocacy into actual conservation decision making has given rise to the question how to appropriately re…
Tourism and degrowth
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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…
The production-protection nexus
This article advances a novel analytical framework for investigating the influence of political-economic processes in human-wildlife interactions (HWI) to support efforts to transform wildlife conservation governance. To date, the majority of research and advocacy addressing HWI focuses on micro-level processes, while even the small body of existing literature exploring social dimensions of such interactions has largely neglected attention to pol…
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…
Pathways to post-capitalist tourism
Potential to identify and cultivate forms of post-capitalism in tourism development has yet to be explored in depth in current research. Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, and hence a powerful global political and socio-economic force. Yet numerous problems associated with conventional tourism development have been documented over the years, problems now greatly exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Calls for sus…
Rendering land touristifiable
Critical research concerning ecotourism has revealed the activity's socio-economic impacts, including low-wage employment-based dependencies for many rural communities. While these dynamics are important, a crucial aspect of the ecotourism industry that falls outside this conventional sort of dependency is land use dynamics, specifically land use change, sales and entrepreneurship. We examine these dynamics in Corbett Tiger Reserve, India, where …
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 …
Convivial Conservation from the Bottom Up
This article describes a case of human-bear cohabitation in the Rodopi mountains (Yagodina-Trigrad area) of Bulgaria. The lack of protected areas in the region and the increasing number of brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) have resulted in both human-wildlife conflicts and the development of mechanisms and practices to facilitate cohabitation in the absence of formal rules to regulate coexistence of human and nonhuman species. However, these mechanism…
Exploring Convivial Conservation in Theory and Practice
Convivial conservation has been put forward as a radical alternative to transform prevailing mainstream approaches that aim to address global concerns of biodiversity loss and extinction. This special issue includes contributions from diverse disciplinary and geographical perspectives which critically examine convivial conservation's potential in theory and practice and explore both possibilities and challenges for the approach's transformative a…
The ‘Bolsonaro bridge
News coverage of noteworthy environmental events is often fleeting, moving from one spectacle to another and rarely retaining global attention. But in August 2019, news of Amazon rainforest fires spread seemingly as quickly as the fires themselves, with sustained global coverage and funding pouring into environmental organizations. Yet Amazon fires regularly occur and fires were simultaneously burning in other important Brazilian biomes, with som…
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…
Transformation beyond conservation
Multiple proposals for transforming biodiversity conservation have been put forward, yet critical exploration of how transformative change is conceptualised in this context is lacking. Drawing on transformations to sustainability scholarship, we review recent proposals for transformative change in biodiversity conservation, considering the suggested goals and means of transformation. We outline the crucial role for critical social scientific inqu…
The right to fail? Problematizing failure discourse in international conservation
A growing body of critical research interrogates the tendency within international conservation circles to present interventions as successful, even when evidence points to substantial negative impacts. The flip side of this ‘selling’ success is a growing emphasis on the importance of embracing and even celebrating failure. Yet this important trend in international conservation policymaking has yet to be examined in depth. We address this researc…
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…
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…
Cosmological Subjectivities
This paper explores local perceptions of the landscape in a small highland community near Haa, Bhutan. Through the lens of ethnoecology, it documents a storied landscape in which an animist cosmology, underpinned by Buddhism, shapes local subjectivities in particular ways that influence behaviour in relation to this landscape. We draw on this case to contribute to a growing body of research exploring how environmental governance understood as Fou…
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
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…
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…
Destructive creation
Tourism is not merely a capitalist practice but a central practice through which capitalism sustains itself. Precisely how tourism "products" become capital and the types of violence this process entails, however, has not yet been systematically theorized or investigated. Building on Noel Castree's six principles of commodification, we explore how tourism becomes capital, understood as "value in motion", and how this process not only provokes var…
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…
Living on the Edge
Early sociological research describes risk sports as a form of resistance to structural aspects of highly industrialized societies. Recent scholarship, however, suggests that conventional social forces operating on the demographic group (young, White, professional, middle-class males) from which most athletes originate actually motivate risk sports participation. This study contributes to the literature by seeking to explain risk athletes’ charac…
Natural capital must be defended
This contribution addresses the growing global trend to promote 'natural capital accounting' (NCA) in support of environmental conservation. NCA seeks to harness the economic value of conserved nature to incentivize local resource users to forgo the opportunity costs of extractive activities. We suggest that this represents a form of neoliberal biopower/biopolitics seeking to defend life by demonstrating its 'profitability' and hence right to exi…
Decoupling
Central to the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals is the notion of ‘decoupling’: the need to divorce economic growth from its ecological impact. For proponents, decoupling entails increasing the efficiency with which value is derived from natural resources in order to reconcile indefinite economic growth with environmental sustainability. However, even advocates admit that the idea of decoup…
Ecotourism after nature
How does ecotourism – conventionally characterized by its pursuit of a “natural” experience – confront assertions that “nature is over” attendant to growing promotion of the “Anthropocene”? One increasingly prominent strategy is to try to harness this “end of nature” itself as a novel tourism “product”. If the Anthropocene is better understood as the Capitalocene, as some contend, then this strategy can be viewed as a paradigmatic example of disa…
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…
Transformation beyond conservation
Multiple proposals for transforming biodiversity conservation have been put forward, yet critical exploration of how transformative change is conceptualised in this context is lacking. Drawing on transformations to sustainability scholarship, we review recent proposals for transformative change in biodiversity conservation, considering the suggested goals and means of transformation. We outline the crucial role for critical social scientific inqu…
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…
Pathways to post-capitalist tourism
Potential to identify and cultivate forms of post-capitalism in tourism development has yet to be explored in depth in current research. Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, and hence a powerful global political and socio-economic force. Yet numerous problems associated with conventional tourism development have been documented over the years, problems now greatly exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Calls for sus…
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…
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
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 is a nice place to save but I wouldn’t want to live there
This article explores the role of ecotourism in the neoliberalisation of environmental education. The practice of ecotourism is informed by a particular ‘ecotourist gaze’ in terms of which the ‘education’ that providers characteristically offer is implicitly framed, embodying a culturally specific perspective in which western society is depicted as alienating and constraining and immersion in ‘wilderness’ is understood as a therapeutic escape fro…
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…
The ‘Bolsonaro bridge
News coverage of noteworthy environmental events is often fleeting, moving from one spectacle to another and rarely retaining global attention. But in August 2019, news of Amazon rainforest fires spread seemingly as quickly as the fires themselves, with sustained global coverage and funding pouring into environmental organizations. Yet Amazon fires regularly occur and fires were simultaneously burning in other important Brazilian biomes, with som…
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
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
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
A Quarterly Bibliography
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
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
Quarterly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
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A Monthly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Monthly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Monthly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Monthly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
A Monthly Bibliography of Anthropologic Literature
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