Selling green militarization: The discursive (re)production of militarized conservation in the Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

摘要: In recent years, the militarization of nature conservation has intensified, especially in protected areas located conflict zones or plagued by ‘poaching crises’. Such ‘green militarization’ is enabled a range discursive techniques that allow it to be seen as ‘normal’ and ‘legitimate’ response. This article analyzes these relation Virunga National Park, war-ridden east Democratic Republic Congo, where militarized approaches have long lineage. It demonstrates many are currently at play show strong continuities with past. These include moral boundary-drawing grounded colonial tropes accomplish (racial) Othering poachers rebels, long-established practice invoking states emergency part wider mechanisms securitization. However, rise neoliberal conservation, its emphasis on marketing marketization, induced transformations employed techniques. Notably, intensified spectacularization anchored everyday consumer practices, actively inviting individual supporters directly fund interventions, thus generating ‘militarization consumption’. shows not only driven growing commodification but increasingly subject itself.