TY  - SER
AU  - Kolinjivadi, Vijay 
AU  - Hecken,  Gert Van 
AU  -  Diana Vela Almeida
AU  - Dupras, Jérôme 
AU  - Kosoy, Nicolás 
TI  - Neoliberal performatives and the ‘making’ of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - ecosystem services
KW  -  environmental policy
KW  -  neoliberalism
KW  -  payments for ecosystem services
KW  -  political ecology
N2  - This paper argues that Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) serve as a neoliberal performative act, in which idealized conditions are re-constituted by well-resourced and networked epistemic communities with the objective of bringing a distinctly instrumental and utilitarian relationality between humans and nature into existence. We illustrate the performative agency of hegemonic epistemic communities advocating (P)ES imaginaries to differentiate between the cultural construction of an ideal reality, which can and always will fail, and an external reality of actually produced effects. In doing so, we explore human agency to disobey performative acts to craft embodied and life-affirming relationships with nature
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517735707
ER  -