"Coastal Lives presents both a brilliant ethnography of the boom and bust faced by the fishing industry in Peru and a historical analysis of the events and policies that led to this unstable industry."-Isaac Barclay, Anthropologica
"Coastal Lives is a welcome addition to the literature on fishing in Peru, providing insight into two understudied factors: the history of the fishing industry after the expropriation of 1973, when most existing histories stop, and the experiences of artisanal and small-scale fishers."-Nathan Clarke, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
"Through a compelling account of the contemporary state of Peruvian fisheries, Coastal Lives reveals the significance of the experiences of artisanal fishers to thinking about nature, class, politics, and climate change. Viatori and Bombiella have written an engaging and valuable ethnography of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, and political ecology."-Shaylih R. Muehlmann, author of When I Wear My Alligator Boots
"While there have been multiple books demonstrating the problems with the tragedy of the commons paradigm, this one takes the analysis to a new level with its historical detail and the way the authors never lose sight of the complexity of the relationships among natural resource fluctuations, state regulations, political ideologies, and the fisheries' participants." -David Griffith, East Carolina University
