Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences

ISBN-13: 9780415771481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 312 str.

James McCarthy; Nik Heynen; Scott Prudham

Opis

Over the past few decades, the governance of nature has taken its most radical turn. The most influential change in economic and social regulation has seen a dramatic reprise of liberal faith in less regulated markets and minimalist states, underpinned by advocacy for extending exclusive property rights to nearly everything imaginable. This complex turn, with its countless yet uncharted implications for environmental quality and governance, is captured by the contentious concept of neoliberalism. Today, neoliberalism provides the context and direction for how humans affect and interact with the non-human world and with one another. But what does this mean for nature?

This volume brings together specific case studies that span more than two decades of experience and evidence linking neoliberalism with concrete environmental changes, politics, and outcomes in diverse, international contexts. It evaluates specific political ecologies and dynamics, and the implications of particular neoliberal reforms and enforcements, while collectively affording new contributors and readers the possibility of thinking comparatively across sectors and geographic contexts. Such specificity and comparative potential serves important analytical functions because it allows the authors and editors to craft stronger, more credible answers to the central questions of what neoliberalism is and what it entails in specific sorts of circumstances.

Spis treści

Introduction: False Promises  Part 1: Enclosure and Privatization  1. The Last Enclosure: Resisting Privatization of Wildlife in the Western United States  2. Privatizing Conditions of Production: Trade Agreements as Neoliberal Environmental Governance  3. Dispossessing H20: The Contested Terrain of Water Privatization  4. Neoliberalism in the Oceans: 'Rationalization,' Property Rights, and the Commons Question  5. Acts of Enclosure: Claim Staking and Land Conversion in Guyana’s Gold Fields  Part I: Commentary  6. Enclosure and Privatization of Neoliberal Environments  7. Neoliberal Primitive Accumulation  Part 2: Commodification and Marketization  8. Neoliberalizing Nature?: Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales  9. The Neoliberalization of Ecosystem Services: Wetland Mitigation Banking and the Problem of Measurement  10. Weak or Strong Multifunctionality?: Agri-Environmental Resistance to Neoliberal Trade Policies  11. Re-regulating the Urban Water Regime in Neoliberal Toronto  Part II Commentary  12. Neoliberalism and the Regulation of Environment  Part 3: Devolution and Neoliberal Governmentalities  13. Poisoning the Well: Neoliberalism and the Contamination of Municipal Water in Walkerton, Ontario  14. Un-Real Estate: Proprietary Space and Public Gardening  15. Scalar Dialectics in Green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature  16. Neoliberalism and Environmental Justice Policy  Part III Commentary  17. Neoliberal Governmentalities  18. Neoliberal Environments, Technologies of Governance and Governance of Technologies  Part 4: Resistance  19 A 'Continuous and Ample Supply': Sustained Yield Timber Production in Northern New Mexico  20. Neo-liberalism and the Struggle for Land in Brazil  21. Enclosure and Economic Identity in New England Fisheries  Part IV Commentary  22. Researching Resistance in a Time of Neoliberal Entanglements  23. What Might Resistance to Neo-Liberalism Consist of?  Part 5: Conclusion  24. Neoliberal Ecologies Conclusion: Unnatural Consequences