Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America

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is an environmental anthropologist who teaches at the Colegio de Michoacán. He has been researching coastal and marine communities since 2000 and currently leads the CoLaboratories of Social Oceanography, a multi-institutional network of coastal scientists bringing social research to the center of coastal science. Narchi is a coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives. Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura is an oceanologist with a doctorate degree in environmental science. He is a professor in the Department of Oceanography at the Universidade Federal do Pará (Federal University of Pará). He coordinates the research group of decolonial coastal management and is co-coordinator of the Amazonian Maretorios project. George Leddy is currently a professor of environmental science, environmental studies, and geography in the Los Angeles Community College District, where he co-directs the Sustainable Environment Institute. He continues to work with colleagues in Berkeley on hydrodam development and fossil fuel extraction in East Africa. He is also Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives.