Adolfo Polo y La Borda (Nottingham): “Radical Mobility. The limits and resistance to mobility in the seventeenth-century Spanish Empire.”
| Dates: | 8 May 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Adolfo Polo y La Borda |
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Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's research seminar series. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166
Abstract: By focusing on three cases of trespassing scattered across the empire, from New Mexico, the Andes, and the Mediterranean, this paper will discuss the shaky effects of mobility. While new studies on mobility see it as a positive force that serves to integrate polities and an essential mechanism of governmentality, in this opportunity, I will explore some of the limits of mobility in the Spanish Empire and the many fears that mobility provoked among authorities and people during the seventeenth century. There were times when people’s movement, particularly from the other’s perspective, could be excessive and turn into trespassing, to go beyond the accepted imperial limits. Defining what movement was accepted and which was considered trespassing was always contingent and specific to economic, social, political, and religious contexts. Limits were set through an intense debate and under the permanent vigilance of the crown, its officials, and the local societies.
Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda is Teaching Associate in Early Modern History at the Department of History of the University of Nottingham.
Speaker
Adolfo Polo y La Borda
Role: Teaching Associate in Early Modern History
Organisation: University of Nottingham.
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Samuel Alexander Building
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