This chapter examines solarity as it manifests in coral restoration efforts in The Bahamas. Utilizing three examples, 1) a for-profit venture for growing coral fragments, 2) a private island tourism destination, and 3) a mega resort, Moore describes “colonial/corporate sun” as a means to harvest solar energies through coral-based extractive economies. Moore then contrasts these efforts with an example of “ocean love”, led by a Bahamian woman whose coral-based work is grounded in community resilience and survival, connecting her work to larger Diasporic conversations around the Middle Passage, Black marine life, and disruptive ways of imagining and living in the world. Far from the “blue economy”, this process by which coral restoration can come to anchor emergent and resistant solarian materialities of knowing and being in the Caribbean, is an instantiation of the “Black Atlantis”.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has risen in popularity as a genetically-based method to enumerate species in natural ecosystems, and it is well positioned to be integrated into biodiversity monitoring and conservation initiatives. While the field has made great strides in methodological development, it has largely avoided discussion of its potential inequitable social outcomes. In this paper, we argue that the social asymmetries of eDNA are under-addressed precisely because of how it is framed and valued by powerful actors who may benefit from the technology’s proliferation. We use a framework of representational rhetorics to articulate the discursive process by which the biodiversity crisis is distilled into problems of data-deficiency and inefficiency in scientific articles such that eDNA offers the exact corresponding technological solution. This framing helps justify eDNA’s implementation in local, global, and corporate spheres, despite the methodology’s uncertainties and limitations. It may also enable future inequitable outcomes through sidelining other forms of biodiversity knowledge and enclosing biodiversity information through processes of genetic commodification and privatization. We engage with critiques of neoliberal conservation, big data, and (biodiversity) genomics made by political ecologists and feminist science and technology studies scholars to help reorient the eDNA field towards more equity-oriented discursive practices and implementations.

The ocean provides a critical foundation for human health, not only through material goods and services (often referred to as "ecosystem services") but also through less easily defined and quantifiable means. Our oceans underpin an incredible diversity of cultures, values, and practices, which themselves are the foundation for a wealth of human connections and well-being. In this chapter, we explore the connections between ocean cultures, human well-being, and management practices. We examine how historical and anthropological perspectives can reveal these connections and highlight future risks. Finally, we explore how coastal culture can both be a source of resilience and expose populations to new and emerging risks. Throughout, case studies highlight how these ideas are being applied by researchers around the globe.

The intensifying warming of the planet over the past several decades is a manifestation of centuries of uneven and inequitable extractive economies. This warming is well known to be the main force driving shifts in climatological conditions and extreme weather events leading to increasingly severe impacts on planetary systems. Every year, more locations on earth are experiencing heat waves, intense droughts, longer and larger fire seasons, increased tropical storm intensity, and sea level rise at rates that would have been unthinkable a generation ago while near daily news reports document the increasing toll that this changing climate plays in exacerbating social and ecological vulnerabilities. Just this year, at the start of the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023, a massive tropical cyclone has killed over 145 people in Bangladesh and Myanmar, western Canada has already seen as much forest burned in a few days as it does in an entire summer, drastically diminishing air quality over half a continent, the Po River Valley in Italy has been ravaged by floods after experiencing two years of extreme drought, and California has experienced deadly and pervasive atmospheric rivers after years of record-setting fire seasons and water shortages. In this special issue, rather than prioritizing benign and depoliticized notions of adaptive capacity and resilience, as is far too common within mainstream discussions of climate change, we highlight the theme of flood and fire to examine these events as compounding contemporary crises and responses to phenomena that are devastating, transforming, and reformulating communities, ecologies, and governing processes around the planet.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsHow Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet. Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019, 272 pp. $39.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8263-6085-4.Amelia MooreAmelia MooreMarine Affairs, University of Rhode Island Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 77, Number 1Spring 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/712288 Views: 73Total views on this site © 2021 by The University of New Mexico. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The last "global coral bleaching event" lasted three years (2014–2017), solidifying the plight of the world's coral reefs as a defining problem of the Anthropocene. The catastrophe inspired countless media stories, becoming common knowledge in parts of the world far from any coastline. Despite the urgency of this latest discovery of coral mass mortality, it is likely that coral decline would never have become the widely recognized crisis that it is today without the visual witnessing technologies that made bleaching so sensationally obvious. And now some proposed solutions to the problem of coral decline, such as large-scale, privately funded coral reef restoration projects, have become reliant on such witnessing tools to mediate public relations and engage many forms of social support. This article presents examples from coral visualizations and materializations in The Bahamas and Indonesia in order to explore the highly uneven politics of witnessing coral life and death.

Coral reef restoration is often presented as a marine conservation solution that provides 'win-win' outcomes. However, most studies on reef restoration have focused on the biological success, while little is known about whether social objectives are ever achieved. This study investigates a reef restoration initiative in the Spermonde archipelago, Indonesia, where food security was initially presented as an intended social outcome. We utilised an ethnographic mixed-methods approach to investigate: 1) perceived sociocultural benefits of coral restoration to the local community; 2) impacts of reef restoration on local food security; and 3) local sociocultural barriers and limitations of reef restoration as a mechanism for improving food security. We found fish contributed to food security primarily as an income source to purchase food. Local people mainly valued nearby reefs for storm protection. Furthermore, most fishers are organised through patron-client systems that target pelagic species; therefore they currently have minimal dependency on adjacent reefs. However, fishing restrictions linked to the restoration programme still negatively impacted both pelagic fishers and a small population of reef-based fishers—indirectly by damaging reciprocal fishing relations with neighbouring islands and directly by limiting access to local reefs. Complex social and trade networks associated with patron-client networks present potential barriers for transitioning to reef-based fisheries and eradicating the use of destructive fishing gear, therefore limiting access to potential food security benefits generated from reef restoration. These findings show that the relationship between coral restoration and food security is tenuous and cannot be assumed. These findings also demonstrate that social dynamics surrounding community-based conservation initiatives are complex and context-dependent, and such details must be considered when designing marine habitat restoration initiatives.

Drawing on the work of Black feminist scholars, this review suggests “intersectional ecologies” as a method for critically engaging anthropology's relationship with the environment across subfields, intellectual traditions, and authorial politics. Intersectional ecologies helps us trace how a broad coalition of scholars represents and accounts for the environment within shifting planetary arrangements of bodies, sites, practices, and technologies. Our basic argument in this article is that because the environment is a malleable and contingent social fact, it matters who is analyzing its formation and how they are analyzing it. To this end, the scholarship we review comes from a diverse array of authors. The three themes we have identified—materiality, knowledge, and subjectivity—are central to bringing this diverse scholarship into dialogue while putting into focus anthropology's uneven commitments to the environment as a concept.

As many academics know by now, the Anthropocene has been generically defined as “the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment” (Oxford Lexico, 2020: online). This definition has been roundly debated, expanded, and amended, and some scholars either deny the existence of such an age on technical grounds or argue for the renaming of the current age to more closely align with the ultimate causal forces driving all that anthropogenic activity. The most popular alternative terms for critical social scholars are now the Capitalocene and the Plantationocene (Moore, 2015; Haraway, 2015; Moore et al, 2019), however, the Anthropocene remains the most commonly used term, for better and for worse, and that is the language we will use in this themed section. Despite this nomenclature, all of the articles in this section describe events that stem from historical asymmetries of capital and deep structural inequity, processes that define the current age by any name.

In this introduction, we introduce the new editors of the journal and the new members of the editorial board. We then summarize the articles, highlighting the intellectual contributions they make to an environmental and social analysis of the world's oceans, ocean scientists, and marine species.

We live in an era of abundant scientific information, yet access to information and to opportunities for substantive public engagement with the processes and outcomes of science are still inequitably distributed. Even with increasing interest in science communication and public engagement with science, historically marginalized and minoritized individuals and communities are largely overlooked and undervalued in these efforts. To address this gap, this paper aims to define inclusive science communication and clarify and amplify the field. We present inclusive science communication as one path forward to redress the systemic problems of inequitable access to and engagement with STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine). We describe the first national Inclusive Science Communication (InclusiveSciComm) Symposium held in the U.S. Based on the experience of organizing the symposium, we discuss recommendations for other convenings to help build a community of practice for inclusive science communication. In both research and practice, we advocate for more experimentation to help make inclusive science communication the future of science communication writ large, in order to engage diverse publics in their multiple ways of knowing and expand a sense of belonging in STEMM.

American EthnologistVolume 47, Issue 3 p. 341-342 Book Review Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink. Irus Braverman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 344 pp. AMELIA MOORE, AMELIA MOORE University of Rhode IslandSearch for more papers by this author AMELIA MOORE, AMELIA MOORE University of Rhode IslandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 August 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12944Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume47, Issue3August 2020Pages 341-342 RelatedInformation

Despite the growth of offshore wind energy and concerns that projects will harm tourism and recreation, there is a lack of empirical research on the effects of operating wind farms on tourism and recreation. The existing literature tends to treat tourists and recreationists as a monolithic group, focused almost entirely on beachgoers. Further, research regarding offshore wind energy and tourism puts forth a narrow conception of tourists, concerned primarily with a natural seascape. The 30-MW Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in the United States, is located offshore an iconic tourism destination and provides a laboratory for understanding interactions between offshore wind energy and the tourism and recreation sectors. We conducted an exploratory qualitative study through which tourism and recreation professionals and participants met in focus groups to discuss experiences with and observations of this project. Analysis revealed diverse viewpoints and largely positive encounters; though, some negative impacts were identified, and participants weighed project costs and benefits. Perspectives were shaped, in part, by experiences with the planning process. Visual impacts were a major concern; however, most participants described the project’s appearance in neutral or positive terms. Overall, the wind farm is functioning as an attractant, either as a novel sight or as a recreational fishing destination. Participants felt the wind farm should be promoted for tourism but cautioned that interest may be short-lived and there may be less support for larger offshore developments. Findings support tourism and recreation sector engagement throughout offshore wind project planning and operation.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteVolume 25, Issue 3 p. 627-628 Book and film reviews Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan & Nils Bubandt (eds). Arts of living on a damaged planet: ghosts and monsters of the Anthropocene. 368 pp., figs, illus., bibliogrs. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2017. $27.95 (paper) Amelia Moore, Amelia Moore University of Rhode IslandSearch for more papers by this author Amelia Moore, Amelia Moore University of Rhode IslandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 August 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13102Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume25, Issue3September 2019Pages 627-628 RelatedInformation