%0 Journal Article
%T Neoliberal performatives and the ¡®making¡¯ of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)
%A Diana Vela Almeida
%A Gert Van Hecken
%A J¨¦r£¿me Dupras
%A Nicol¨¢s Kosoy
%A Vijay Kolinjivadi
%J Progress in Human Geography
%@ 1477-0288
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0309132517735707
%X 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
%K ecosystem services
%K environmental policy
%K neoliberalism
%K payments for ecosystem services
%K political ecology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309132517735707