Memo+6+Delineating+a+Project

1.This project could be about pirate knowledge networks, focusing on the exchange of information among pirates themselves, as well as the exchanges between pirates and indigenous peoples and between pirates and government officials. It would look at how and when those exchanges took place and what impacts they might have had.

2.This project could be about the ways that pirates have contributed to Western science, and how those contributions have been attributed to other individuals. Using a postcolonial feminist or subaltern perspective, it could also study why criminals were not given credit for their contributions.

3.This project could be a comparative study between Hutchin's “cognition in the wild” navigation project and a study of cultural cognition in pirate communities and how it may have impacted the construction of material culture. It could also include a comparative study between cognitive studies of indigenous navigation and my own work in criminal sciences and technologies.