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Silke Hensel - Social Practices of Representation in Early Republican Mexico
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Keynote Lecture - Social Practices of Representation in Early Republican Mexico
In Mexico, as in all of Spanish America, independence from Spain was followed by a period of political instability. This instability was related, in particular, to the need to find new forms of and procedures for political decision-making and ways to create new political identities, given the rise of new concepts such as national sovereignty, representation, and the general will in the era of Atlantic Revolutions.
This lecture sheds light on pronunciamientos as a form of representation that became prominent in Mexico. Some pronunciamientos were outright rebellions, but they were more often a ritualised practice used by many social actors to express their will in political conflicts. Along with elections, they took on a mediating function between the government, representative bodies, and the citizenry. Pronunciamientos changed the one-directional relationship between ruler and ruled that had been common during the colonial period. Communication between the local, regional, and national levels intensified considerably, and printed public spaces merged with oral spaces. Therefore, the lecture will discuss whether early pronunciamientos were a form of democratic practices.
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Silke Hensel is professor of Latin American History at the University of Cologne since April 2021. From 2004 to 2021 she was professor of “non-European” history at the University of Münster. Her main research concentrates on governance in the colonial era and after independence. She also focuses on migration, racism and violence. Her regional expertise lies in Mexico, the US, and the Cono Sur.
Her books include El desarrollo del federalismo en México: La élite política de Oaxaca entre ciudad, región y estado nacional, 1786–1835, Oaxaca/San Luis Potosí/Zamora, Michoacán: Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca/El Colegio de San Luis/El Colegio de Michoacán 2012. She co-edited Dinámicas de inclusión y exclusión en América Latina. Conceptos y prácticas de etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia, Frankfurt/Madrid 2015. Hensel is editor in chief of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina.
In Mexico, as in all of Spanish America, independence from Spain was followed by a period of political instability. This instability was related, in particular, to the need to find new forms of and procedures for political decision-making and ways to create new political identities, given the rise of new concepts such as national sovereignty, representation, and the general will in the era of Atlantic Revolutions.
This lecture sheds light on pronunciamientos as a form of representation that became prominent in Mexico. Some pronunciamientos were outright rebellions, but they were more often a ritualised practice used by many social actors to express their will in political conflicts. Along with elections, they took on a mediating function between the government, representative bodies, and the citizenry. Pronunciamientos changed the one-directional relationship between ruler and ruled that had been common during the colonial period. Communication between the local, regional, and national levels intensified considerably, and printed public spaces merged with oral spaces. Therefore, the lecture will discuss whether early pronunciamientos were a form of democratic practices.
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Silke Hensel is professor of Latin American History at the University of Cologne since April 2021. From 2004 to 2021 she was professor of “non-European” history at the University of Münster. Her main research concentrates on governance in the colonial era and after independence. She also focuses on migration, racism and violence. Her regional expertise lies in Mexico, the US, and the Cono Sur.
Her books include El desarrollo del federalismo en México: La élite política de Oaxaca entre ciudad, región y estado nacional, 1786–1835, Oaxaca/San Luis Potosí/Zamora, Michoacán: Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca/El Colegio de San Luis/El Colegio de Michoacán 2012. She co-edited Dinámicas de inclusión y exclusión en América Latina. Conceptos y prácticas de etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia, Frankfurt/Madrid 2015. Hensel is editor in chief of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina.
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