{"product_id":"failing-forward-9780520390683","title":"Failing Forward","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFailing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to fail forward over time despite its ineffectiveness. At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes market-based instruments intended to reconcile environmental preservation and economic development by harnessing preservation itself as the source of both conservation finance and capital accumulation more generally. Robert Fletcher describes how this project has developed over the past several decades along with the expanding network of organizations and actors that have come together around its promotion. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, he explores why this strategy continues to captivate states, nongovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, and the private sector alike despite its significant deficiencies. Ultimately, Fletcher contends, neoliberal conservation should be understood as a failed attempt to render glo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Capitalism on Trial \u003cbr\u003e 1 • Conceptualizing Neoliberal Biopower \u003cbr\u003e 2 • Conjuring Natural Capital \u003cbr\u003e 3 • Imagining the Market \u003cbr\u003e 4 • The Neoliberal Ecolaboratory \u003cbr\u003e 5 • The Anti-regulation Machine \u003cbr\u003e 6 • How to Fail Forward \u003cbr\u003e 7 • Neoliberal Conservation in Ruins? \u003cbr\u003e 8 • There Is No Alternative to Degrowth \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Traversing the Neoliberal Fantasy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402966081879,"sku":"9780520390683","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/failing-forward-9780520390683","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}