"Incisive, moving, and beautifully written, "Conservation Is Our Government Now" is an absolutely exemplary study and a completely absorbing narrative. It is quite simply one of the most sophisticated political ecology books I have read to date."--Neil Smith, author of "The Endgame of Globalization" ""Conservation Is Our Government Now" is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being."--J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of "Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management"