Amelia Moore

Amelia Moore is an Associate Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, with degrees in Environmental Biology and Sociocultural Anthropology. She currently teaches Race, Gender, Colonialism, and Science for both graduate and undergraduate natural science and gender and women's studies students at URI, and has a primary research focus on island and coastal science and technology studies in post, neo, and ongoing colonial contexts, with an interest in exploring what she and her collaborators call "The Black Benthic."

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Coastal Futures

Theorizing the Contemporary

Coastal Futures

Over the last fifty years, efforts to create, plan, and manage coastal zones have multiplied globally in the face of threats posed by intensifying development a... More

Introduction: Coastal Futures

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: Coastal Futures

Over the last fifty years, efforts to create, plan, and manage coastal zones have multiplied globally in the face of threats posed by intensifying development a... More

Citation Matters: An Updated Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology

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Citation Matters: An Updated Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology

Scholarship in environmental anthropology has historically asked questions about how humans relate to the interconnected biophysical and cultural processes unfo... More

Working Together to Restore the Reef: Naturalizing Corporate Forms of Coral, Labor, and Responsibility

Theorizing the Contemporary

Working Together to Restore the Reef: Naturalizing Corporate Forms of Coral, Labor, and Responsibility

The damp coral fragment in my hand is small, brown, and branching. I have selected this fragment of Acropora out of a bin of dozens of similar fragments. An emp... More