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The absent pirate: exceeding justice in the Indian Ocean

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Legal, literary and visual archives are replete with absent pirates. It is remarkable how often the pirate is only partly delineated or seen from a distance, is ghostly, or plotted off-stage. These figurations variously nerve and unnerve imperial discourses and narratives of justice. This paper addresses some recent, fictional non-representations of ‘the Somali pirate’. I propose that this absenting of the pirate is critical to the texts’ various approaches or reproaches to justice. I further suggest that these fictions are concerned with an ethics of proximity – of physical space and geographical affect – that exceeds the primacy and virtue of ‘justice’.

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  • Stephanie Jones, 2015. "The absent pirate: exceeding justice in the Indian Ocean," Journal of Eastern African Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(3), pages 522-535, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjeaxx:v:9:y:2015:i:3:p:522-535
    DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2015.1087682
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