Complex Mobilities in Latin American History
| Dates: | 19 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Jo Crow, Francisco Eissa-Barroso, Adolfo Polo y La Borda |
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Historians of Latin America have rarely thought of mobility as the socially constructed expression of physical movement (favouring instead an understanding of mobility as connected only to class and the concept of social mobility); by contrast, geographers and sociologists connected to the “new mobilities paradigm” have often assumed (explicitly or implicitly) that complex forms of geographical mobility are an intrinsically modern phenomenon and often one connected to wealthier societies. This workshop aims to challenge the idea that complex mobilities are exclusive to the modern world by showcasing ground breaking research on historical im/mobilities in Latin America from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Participants will grapple with both the challenges and opportunities which the “new mobilities paradigm” presents for historical research and reflect on the historically and culturally dependant nature of mobility (understood as the socially constructed experience of physical movement).
Presenters:
Jo Crow (Bristol) ‘Indigenous Mobility and Mobile Indigeneity in Early 20th Century Latin America’
Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso (Manchester) ‘Mobile conjurers: women, mobility and sorcery in the early-seventeenth century Hispanic Atlantic’
Adolfo Polo y La Borda (Nottingham) ‘Mobility and the Global Making of the Spanish Empire’.
This event forms part of the CIDRAL series of events on Im/mobilities.
Speakers
Jo Crow
Organisation: University of Bristol
Francisco Eissa-Barroso
Organisation: University of Manchester
Adolfo Polo y La Borda
Organisation: University of Nottingham
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