Jolly Roger as Method: a 'conceptual persona' for rethinking with the sea

This contribution discusses and extends beyond a hermeneutic paradigm that isolates geopolitics within terrestrial-centric epistemologies. Specifically, it proposes an expansive pirate methodology that, through the multifaceted lenses of blue studies, deconstructs dominant linguistic and imaginative frameworks, habitually grounded in the land and, as such, predatory and radically colonial. Thus, by shifting perspectives from the ground to the offshore, the paper argues that geography and philosophy can converge to generate new political ecologies under the Jolly Roger flag which, simultaneously transnational and transcultural, challenges and revolutionizes world-making processes as well as our modes of conceptualization and representation of our dwelling. Finally, I introduce the figure of pirate as a ‘conceptual persona’ which, embodying a maritime multi-perspective, enables us to rethink critically and creatively both human-environment organizations and human-community interactions.