The use of market-based instruments (MBIs) to incentivise nature conservation has become an entrenched governance approach. While there is a strong geography/political ecology literature critiquing neoliberal environmental governance at a conceptual level, this session is interested in unpacking the ways that MBIs in particular are only ever partial in their capturing of human-environment relations. Indeed, individuals, communities and even more-than-humans are co-opting and re-imagining the logics underpinning MBIs for collective and reciprocal ends, in ways that challenge assumptions about neoliberal hegemony. The tensions, opportunities and uncertainties that exist around the entanglements of MBI theory and practice for nature conservation may reveal new ways forward for both exploiting and resisting neoliberal conservation. Papers in this session are welcome to explore a range of related themes, but may wish to consider:

• Why MBIs are failing to entrain all human-environment relations to capital
• How communities are exploiting the gaps in market logic inherent in creative ways
• How more-than-humans are being enrolled in MBIs and how the agency or affordances of species/ecological assemblages might help to challenge market logics
• The role of institutions, policies, histories, land use/landscapes in shaping the translation of MBIs into practice