Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy

Pirates are everywhere today. Over the last decade, there have been
numerous reports of Somali and new Caribbean ‘piracy' in the news; data
‘pirates' are persecuted by the defendants of copyright law and intellectual property; eco-activist groups on the high seas, often on the border
of transgressing laws that protect global corporate business rather than
oceanic ecosystems, are termed pirates in the media while they themselves
have also adopted piratical symbols like the skull and crossbones. Similarly,"Pirate Parties" throughout Europe, though perhaps past their heyday, have used the label to question the future of representative democracy in favor of more direct forms of government. In popular cultural contexts, pirate symbols are used by the fashion and many other industries and, since Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series and a number of piratethemed computer games, have become prominent figures on the screen
again.
[Austria: 2020]

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