Business, Biodiversity and New ′Fields′ of conservation: The world conservation congress and the renegotiation of organisational order

definite absence of 'singularity'. 1 More importantly, Kantner's piece is notable because it serves to communicate two of the primary messages that the convener of the conference-the IUCN Secretariat-sought to put into public circulation: that it is time for the conservation movement to seek out and work with 'new types of partners', -code for deepening interconnections with the private sector; and that the IUCN membership is unified in this pursuit. 2That a journalist could identify these markedly political messages early on in the WCC is not particularly surprising. 3Indeed, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of the WCC as a vehicle through which certain actors negotiate a new organisational order, reproducing the pseudo-social networks that are beginning to resemble, what Peter Haas (1992) and others have called, an epistemic community-directed through interaction among a set of common individuals who physically and ideologically migrate across the once well-defined boundaries separating governmental agencies, non-governmental organisations