Christoph Gorg, Ulrich Brand.Post-Fordist Societal Relationships with Nature: The Role of NGOs and the State in Biodiversity Politics. RM 15(2):263-288 "Argues that NGOs, far from facilitating international cooperation vis-a-vis environmental problems, in fact play a part in creating the problematic circumstances and the realm of conflict, both of which are socially constructed. The focus is on the extent to which the ostensibly apolitical specialization and expertise of NGOs have fostered the entrenchment and thus functions as an aspect of what Gramsci has called the ""extended state."" The first section examines some key features of the post-Fordist transformation of politics and relationships with the natural environment as a springboard for a close analysis of this field's broad structure and the function of NGOs within it. 84 References. K. Coddon."