Interrogating Transfrontier Conservation Regimes: Power/Knowledge and Institutional Arrangements at the Intersection of IPE and Global Environmental Politics.

This paper draws on conceptualizations from International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics to examine the discursive space and technologies that have come to constitute recent transfrontier conservation approaches. In this discursive space, an ecological/scientific discourse of bioregionalism views organisms and ecological processes as crossing political borders and management entails an application of economic neoliberalism that reduce social and ecological processes to a single metric of profit or loss which can then be tapped by the "market." By privileging expert scientific knowledge and a trans-boundary territoriality and a market-driven standardization, contemporary eco-regional approaches driven by international conservation organizations propose the creation of "govermentalized localities" that are linked through transnational spaces. The paper dismantles these assumptions by elaborating issues at the intersection of power/knowledge, institutional arrangements, and subjectivity formation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]