Robert Fletcher is Associate Professor of Sociology of Development and Change at Wageningen University. He is the author of Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism and a coauthor of The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene.

"The book is an excellent contribution to the debates on neoliberal conservation and adds new conceptual insights supported by empirical cases. It is built on theories in critical development studies and goes beyond these theories in making sense of conservation debates."

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Capitalism on Trial 1 • Conceptualizing Neoliberal Biopower 2 • Conjuring Natural Capital 3 • Imagining the Market 4 • The Neoliberal Ecolaboratory 5 • The Anti-regulation Machine 6 • How to Fail Forward 7 • Neoliberal Conservation in Ruins? 8 • There Is No Alternative to Degrowth Conclusion: Traversing the Neoliberal Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index

Robert Fletcher is Associate Professor of Sociology of Development and Change at Wageningen University. He is the author of Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism and a coauthor of The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene.

"The book is an excellent contribution to the debates on neoliberal conservation and adds new conceptual insights supported by empirical cases. It is built on theories in critical development studies and goes beyond these theories in making sense of conservation debates."

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Capitalism on Trial 1 • Conceptualizing Neoliberal Biopower 2 • Conjuring Natural Capital 3 • Imagining the Market 4 • The Neoliberal Ecolaboratory 5 • The Anti-regulation Machine 6 • How to Fail Forward 7 • Neoliberal Conservation in Ruins? 8 • There Is No Alternative to Degrowth Conclusion: Traversing the Neoliberal Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index