New PRIVACY book: Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History
The book explores manifestations of privacy at sea in the early modern period and develops a theory of privacy as a spectrum of strategies to secure autonomy. It draws on a wide range of sources, from letters and travel logs to tattoos.
In the introduction “Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An Introduction to Privacy Studies in Maritime History” Natacha Klein explains: This chapter introduces the Privacy at Sea volume, demonstrating the contributions of privacy studies in researching early modern and maritime history. It provides a more dynamic understanding of privacy in the challenging environment of life at sea, focusing on the many strategies that enable people a certain level of negotiation and regulation of how information, bodies, behaviours, and accounts could be accessed or restricted.
Both the introduction by Natacha Klein Käfer and the epilogue “Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An Epilogue” by Mette Birkedal Bruun and Natacha Klein Käfer can be found in Open Access here.
Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is part of the book series: Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History (GSSCMH)