Martina Kado

Translator, Fulbright fellow and flamenco dancer, Martina Kado is a PhD candidate at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her commitment to higher education has led her to project management and policy-making in a nonprofit organisation, as well as university teaching in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Like her interest in sea narratives, her personal life has been a ‘traveling genre’, thriving between Croatia, Scotland and the United States.

Articles by Martina Kado:

15 June 201629 July 2016

Sailing under black: notes toward a theory of piracy

Martina Kado

It is misguided to think of piracy as either illegal, or lawless. Defining any practice against the law means that one can only ever occupy one position, either the good or the bad side of it. Piracy cancels out this semantic matrix, and imposes its own, where the law of the land, of kings and empires is not a rigid boundary, but a supple one, to be used as a porous membrane.