The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism

"The Nature of Spectacle speaks of the economic interests behind present-day conservation programs in a constructive as well as critical manner. This book further widens my perspective on the sociological and economical background of conservation programs."-Economic Botany

"A historically-grounded and novel argument about conservation and capitalism."-Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography

"Igoe's latest book, The Nature of Spectacle, provides an engaging discussion of how representations of nature-images, videos and spaces that depict wild landscapes and living organisms-mediate relationships between humans and the environment."-Canadian Journal of Development Studies
 
"[The Nature of Spectacle] would be an excellent book for teaching, as it presents a set of very complex arguments in a rather friendly manner and makes you question your own place, as a consumer of both images and commodities, within capital's approach to the production of nature."-Conservation and Society
 
"The Nature of Spectacle is theoretically insightful and presents an inventive framework for understanding present entanglements, but also for imagining different futures. It is a significant contribution and essential reading for scholars studying neoliberal conservation, political ecology, and the anthropology of nature."-African Studies Review

"Igoe offers an original and provocative take on topics that couldn't be more relevant to ongoing debates in anthropology, geography, environmental studies, and conservation studies."-Andrew Walsh, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario