Privacy at Sea

Natacha Klein Käfer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on healing knowledge and its connections to privacy and confidentiality in the early modern period as well as transcontinental networks of knowledge.

• 1. Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An Introduction to Privacy Studies in Maritime History - Natacha Klein Käfer .- 2. Black Seamen’s Privacy in an ‘Anxious Atlantic’ - Charles R. Foy .- 3. Women and children on board - The case of the Carreira da India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - Amélia Polónia and Rosa Capelão .- 4. Privacy in Recife, Freedom in Amsterdam: Juliana’s practical strategies of autonomy across the Atlantic - Natália da Silva Perez .- 5. Breaching the Cabin Walls: Madness, Privacy and Care at Sea in the Eighteenth-Century British Navy - Catherine Beck .- 6. Some Sly Corner: Privacy and Sodomitical Space in the Georgian Royal Navy - Seth LeJacq .- 7. Anchors, Hearts & Crosses: Multiple Ways of the Tattoo Usage by Seamen - Philipp Schadner .- 8. Secrecy, war, and communication: challenges and strategies of the General-Government of the State of Brazil in the second half of the seventeenth century - HugoAndré Flores Fernandes Araújo .- 9. The Spinola System for Maritime Postal Exchanges between the Madrid Nunciature and the Roman Curia (1645-55) - Alessia Ceccarelli .- 10. A Very Secret Intelligence: The Parallel Espionage of the Republic of Genoa in the State of the Presìdi - Diego Pizzorno .- 11. Seas, Galleys, and Laws: Antonio Guevara’s Del Arte de Marear (1539) - José Maria Martin Humanes .- 12. “‘[They] are not of any service, except for wasting wages and burning a lot of timber’: The soldiers of the guard of the Royal Shipyard of Barcelona (1575-1600) - Aguilera López .- 13. The Eastern Adriatic and Privacy in Sixteenth-Century Ports and Ships in Italian Travel Narratives - Jelena Bakic. 14. Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An Epilogue - Mette Birkedal Bruun.