Struggle for Justice is necessary. Free Gaza by whatever means. This time by...
[Readers will know I do not endorse charity giving – see Rumour – but note the distinction between buying a boat for the Free Gaza movement and other good causes. This one must float. Lets buy a boat,...
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Any surprise that Israeli commandos might ‘botch’ a raid on the boats of the Free Gaza flotilla should be tempered by the recognition that they planned this provocation, at night, with guns. In...
View ArticlePiracy as activism
Piracy as activism In spite of its long and intense presence in the popular imagery, piracy is a concept that has only scarcely and timidly been linked to forms of political activism. Mostly seen...
View ArticleZurker the Zucker(berg) punch…
Still a lot to be worked out but OK, why not gamble on FB not even being here in 8 years (as reported in the SMH today) and join this other (maybe nicer) pyramid scheme social networking site. I’m...
View ArticleThe East India Company’s Deptford Shipyard
The origins of many, although not all, of Britain’s Black and Asian population lie in British traders’ search for profit around the globe. Britain was responsible for uprooting millions of people from...
View Article“Battle of Convoys Wharf”
Evening Standard piece on Convoys Wharf by Kieren Long Published: 26 October 2011 Does it matter what’s underneath the pavement? Under our feet, in the earth, are the traces of the 2,000 years of...
View ArticleShips in bottles from the Maritime, Greenwich.
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/usercollections/3c17432b6294e5c99fe7fcd68e12e8a1.html and http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/nelsons-ship-in-a-bottle/
View ArticleFoul Lang**ge on the River
A ground level display in a vitrine (? Is it a vitrine when the glass is vertical) in the Guildhall Museum Rochester. See SF’s forthcoming post on prison hulks as part of her ongoing series on theme...
View ArticleDanish colonial ties
Some maritime gems in the library yesterday… ”Serampore had a certain importance to the illicit Anglo-Danish trade thanks to its facilities for anonymity and customs easements’ (Feldbaek 1969:199)....
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Predator journals target ISSH2021 – be warned.
So, a process warning to those not used to getting chatty friendly emails from parasite journals that will charge you to publish. The ISSH2021 conference gets hit by these predators. Promising to...
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Coconuts
Sir Fancis Drake – whose lucre profits helped Queen Elizabeth get out of debt and invest in the Levant and then the East India Company, from which in turn the plunder of Bengal feulled the industrial...
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Comparative Urbanism and who gets [funded to] compare
In the current conjuncture, with the increasingly complete capture of university research by corporate interests, only the alternative incorporation of research teams that start outside the university...
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Captain Cook chased a chook…
… all around Australia, he lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania. Or: Captain Cook rode a chook down the Murray River. Hit a rock, split his cock and left his balls to...
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In recovery
After two months of radio four brainwash, it is good to be in recovery, getting back to normal with Radio M-L and happy to leave the sinking remain/brexit isles to its terminal fester (both ‘sides’...
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Robinson Vols 1 & 2.
Crikey, would you have paid 35 grand (GBP actual price ‘realised’ in 2017) for just parts one and two of the original Robinson – this was missing the third part. Bargain at half the price (probably...
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Slurs
Defoe is as good at mocking Robinson as anyone, despite swallowing a thesaurus. In volume three: ”poor, wild, wicked Robinson” (316) “a churl, a morose, sour disposition, a covetous, avaricious,...
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Pirate Reboot – Occupy Madagascar
Graeber, David. 2023. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the real Libertalia. London: Allen Lane. In this entertaining book, the world of early eighteenth century Madagascar piracy, and the women they liaised...
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Robinson so far…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1994353?src=recsys https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204?src=recsys...
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Special Issue: Robinson Crusoe
Free to download in 2023. Click the TOC below and download each as a PDF or EPUB from T&R. #robinson #crusoe #JournalofPostcolonialWriting. Now with the introduction by Claire Reddleman – articles...
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