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This essay proposes a new visual politics of Europe's borders that foregrounds encounters and trespassings. It focuses on the analysis of two films that have received wide international acclaim: On the Bride's Side (2013) and Fuocoammare (2015). The films deal with migration as a humanitarian crisis but are not simple acts of denunciation. They are also not straightforward documentaries but offer innovative visual registers that defy categorization into fixed genres, such as the road movie or observational documentary. On the Bride's Side uses the format of a travelling wedding party that disregards both legislation restricting free mobility in Europe and the cynicism about the hopelessness of the migrant condition. The film was realized through an online crowdfunding campaign unprecedented in Italy. Fuocoammare presents the tragedy of Lampedusa outside of the regular schemes and screens, combining the migrant drama with the ordinary lives of people on the island, mostly through the perspective of a 12-year-old boy, Samuele, whose lazy eye becomes a metaphor for the short-sightedness of Europe. Both films propose a new aesthetic of the border, forging new imaginaries for Europe where spaces of solidarity and cosmopolitanism are still possible.

Over the past 14 years, Australia has emerged as one of the vanguard sites in the globalizing transformation of power that is the embrace of border security; Australia's story is not only an Australian story. People see analogous processes taking shape and burrowing into the socius across the world: the USA, Europe, and Israel are three conspicuous cases. Here, Chambers offers general lessons from discursive snapshots taken of a very specific case, one geographically distant, but that speaks to the political heart of the times. Adapted from the source document.

The oldest known shipwreck in southern Africa was found in Namibia in 2008. Forty tons of cargo, including gold and silver coins, helped identify the ship as the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese nau (trading vessel) lost in 1533 while headed to India. The cargo included >100 elephant tusks, which we examined using paleogenomic and stable isotope analyses. Nuclear DNA identified the ivory source as African forest (Loxodonta cyclotis) rather than savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants. Mitochondrial sequences traced them to West and not Central Africa and from ≥17 herds with distinct haplotypes. Four of the haplotypes are known from modern populations; others were potentially lost to subsequent hunting of elephants for ivory. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) indicated that the elephants were not from deep rainforests but from savanna and mixed habitats. Such habitats surround the Guinean forest block of West Africa and accord with the locations of major historic Portuguese trading ports. West African forest elephants currently range into savanna habitats; our findings suggest that this was not consequent to regional decimation of savanna elephants for their ivory in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the time of the Bom Jesus, ivory was a central driver in the formation of maritime trading systems connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia. Our integration of paleogenomic, archeological, and historical methods to analyze the Bom Jesus ivory provides a framework for examining vast collections of archaeological ivories around the world, in shipwrecks and other contexts. ; Supplemental Information: Document S1. Figures S1–S3, Tables S1–S5, and Supplemental References. ; US Fish and Wildlife Service African Elephant Conservation, South African Research Chairs Initiative of the National Research Foundation (NRF), Department of Science and Technology of South Africa, US Department of Agriculture, PEEC and Clark Research Support Grants, Claude Leon Foundation and the European Union. ; http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home ...

The title of this thesis, British Mercantile Mysticism, explores the relationship between the rising mercantile outlook among the newly evolving middle and merchant classes in England during the seventeenth century into the later part of the eighteenth. It examines the rise of the new science used in the navigation of the great fleet of the merchant marine. These ideas combined with British culture at the time and other influences such as religion, the world of letters, politics and aesthetics are depicted in William Falconer's poem The Shipwreck (1762). This simple poem can be seen as a microcosm or a reflection of the mindset, aspirations and inspirations that powered the modern and progressive thinking of the eighteenth century in Great Britain. These ideas have since spread to much of the English speaking world (particularly North America, Australia and New Zealand) even to this day.

"Unlike official history, which takes long and impersonal strides through the past, 'The Shipwreck of Gnalic' describes individual human destinies that convey the story of the late Renaissance period throughout Europe and the Mediterranean as uncovered at the site of the shipwreck. Transiting the permanent route between Venice and Constantinople, the ship Gagliana grossa, formerly known as Lezza, Moceniga e Basadonna, symbolically connected two apparently opposing, yet tightly interwoven worlds. The stunning objects that spent four centuries at the bottom of the sea briefly made the Gnalic shipwreck famous in the 1960s and 1970s, but only in recent years has the scholarly community finally started collecting all the available information hidden in museum collections, at the shipwreck site, and in the archives. [...]" (Rückseite des hinteren Banddeckels)

Trevose Head, the land mass jutting out into the Atlantic from North Cornwall's shore has been called the 'Lizard' of the North Coast. This inhospitable coast has seen many disasters over the centuries, from ocean-going sailing ships blown off course or badly navigated, to coastal vessels bound for Wales and the Bristol Channel foundering, colliding and 'colliers' blwoing up. Both world wars saw intense activity off Trevose as German U Boats attempted to prevent supplies from reaching the UK. This illustrated history tells the stories behind these events. The narrative also considers the