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TY - JOUR
T1 - Intimate Mediations of For‐Profit Conservation Finance
T2 - Waste, Improvement, and Accumulation
AU - Dempsey, Jessica
AU - Bigger, Patrick
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dempsey, J. and Bigger, P. (2019), Intimate Mediations of For‐Profit Conservation Finance: Waste, Improvement, and Accumulation. Antipode. doi:10.1111/anti.12503 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12503 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - How to understand the marriage between accumulation and conservation? The paper draws from extensive research into one value chain, from the advisor in New York City to a wildlife‐friendly cattle business in Kenya. Making this enterprise return in money requires intimate and relentless efforts to transform wasteful conduct across a range of institutions and people; we focus on the attempted production of NGO economicus, homo economicus plus, and bos Taurus economicus. Drawing from feminist and postcolonial theorists of capitalism, we emphasise how green capitalist value production does not always hinge on extinguishing other‐than‐capitalist‐social relations but rather attempts to mobilise and harness such differences, including non‐profit‐seeking values, logics and relations. The paper concludes by reflecting on the temporal challenges facing for‐profit conservation finance, including those posed by previous regimes of accumulation that it relies on but also wants to overcome.
AB - How to understand the marriage between accumulation and conservation? The paper draws from extensive research into one value chain, from the advisor in New York City to a wildlife‐friendly cattle business in Kenya. Making this enterprise return in money requires intimate and relentless efforts to transform wasteful conduct across a range of institutions and people; we focus on the attempted production of NGO economicus, homo economicus plus, and bos Taurus economicus. Drawing from feminist and postcolonial theorists of capitalism, we emphasise how green capitalist value production does not always hinge on extinguishing other‐than‐capitalist‐social relations but rather attempts to mobilise and harness such differences, including non‐profit‐seeking values, logics and relations. The paper concludes by reflecting on the temporal challenges facing for‐profit conservation finance, including those posed by previous regimes of accumulation that it relies on but also wants to overcome.
KW - biodiversity conservation
KW - impact investing
KW - waste
KW - financialization of nature
KW - Kenya
KW - Feminist political economy
KW - postcolonial theory
U2 - 10.1111/anti.12503
DO - 10.1111/anti.12503
M3 - Journal article
VL - 51
SP - 517
EP - 538
JO - Antipode
JF - Antipode
SN - 0066-4812
IS - 2
ER -