Latin America in Global History: An Historiographic Overview

Olstein, Diego

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“…13 For an analysis of Brazilian history as global history, see Schulze and Fischer 2019. Among the numerous studies on the fruitful applicability of Latin American historiographies to global history are Olstein 2017;Paz 2016;Brown 2015;andAdelman 2004. 14 Stoler 2002. demand for mining knowledge and the subsequent mapping of areas with mineral resources, like Minas Gerais, should be understood within the framework of what some scholars have called the territorialization process.…”

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Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850

Bartoletti

2022

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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The rumors of Brazil’s mineral riches reaching London and Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century, started by enslaved Africans mining clandestinely in unexplored regions and later through geological surveys by mining engineers from the Habsburg Empire, prompted aspirations to wealth which circulated fluidly in the transatlantic context. This article examines the distinct but convergent agencies of garimpeiros, enslaved miners and prospectors, and of Habsburgian mining engineers in the territorialization process of Minas Gerais during the nineteenth-century expansion of global capitalism. It analyses the degree of connectivity and cooperation across British and Habsburgian imperial spaces in Brazilian mining ventures, focusing on the case of the mining engineer Virgil von Helmreichen, who arrived in Minas Gerais in 1836, under contract to the British-financed Imperial Brazilian Mining Association. The Habsburgian expert elite of which Helmreichen was a part played a crucial role in the expansion of the commodity frontier in this region, providing proficient knowledge in mining and geology. This expert community collaborated with the logistics networks of British free-trade imperialism and the Brazilian slave system inherited from the colonial period. The territorialization of Minas Gerais shows the global dynamics at play between British interests in the discovery of new mines, the need to produce expert knowledge at the local level, and the Brazilian government’s desire to control the hinterland region and profit from its mineral wealth.

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Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850

Bartoletti

2022

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“…conceito de América Divergente tal como proposto por Diego Olstein (2017), argumento que o fracasso do Mercosul em criar uma noção de identidade comum do Cone Sul está relacionado à base histórica sobre a qual se funda o bloco. Ao ler o romance de Aguerre à luz desta perspectiva analítica, proponho que a integração a qual o Mercosul almeja pode ser alcançada através da literatura -especificamente a partir do conceito de capitalismo impresso proposto por Benedict Anderson (2016), no qual a novela impressa funciona como a semente e o tecido a partir do qual grandes grupos de pessoas desconhecidas se unem e se identificam.…”

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The Mercosur fiction: politics and literature in Gabriela Aguerre’s O quarto branco

Lucena

2022

Cad. PROLAM/USP

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This paper discusses the viability of speaking of a Southern Cone identity as a Mercosur’s project by analyzing Gabriela Aguerre’s O quarto branco (2019). Departing from the official Mercosur’s discourse about its project of regional cultural integration and in connection with Diego Olstein’s (2017) concept of American Divergence, I argue that the lack of success of Mercosur in creating the notion of a common identity for the Southern Cone is linked to the historical foundation in which lies the creation of the bloc. By reading Aguerre’s novel in view of such divergent framework, I propose that the regional integration that Mercosur longs for can be achieved via literature – specifically through Benedict Anderson’s (2016) concept of print-capitalism, for which novel in print functions as the seed and fabric from which large groups of anonymous peoples can commune and identify. When representing the dualities at play when moving across the Southern Cone borders, Aguerre’s novel both contests and accepts such duality while suggesting that the Mercosur’s common identity is still not a reality, yet achievable in the realm of fiction and communal imagination.

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“…2 2 On Latin America and global history: Brown (2015), Schulze and Fischer (2019), Adelman (2004), and Olstein (2017). …”

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Turning Big Brother upside down: Revisiting surveillance from Latin America

Ragas

2021

History Compass

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This essay discusses the emergence of a vibrant body of research embracing surveillance in Modern Latin America. By focusing on a specific yet complex region, scholars have expanded the original framework associated with the term, applying this new lens to periods ranging from after the Wars of Independence to contemporary episodes. Moreover, the examination of surveillance in this region reveals how researchers have engaged not only with trending research but their willingness to respond to the social, political, and technological phenomena that have become more visible since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the implementation of a new paradigm based on state security. This concern has become augmented with the revelations on the role of the National Security Agency and social media companies obtaining data from citizens. I conclude by suggesting new avenues for this nascent scholarship to move away from its rigid Orwellian nature and turn surveillance into a more flexible analytical tool.

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Latin America in Global History: An Historiographic Overview

Cited by 4 publications

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Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850

Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850

The Mercosur fiction: politics and literature in Gabriela Aguerre’s O quarto branco

Turning Big Brother upside down: Revisiting surveillance from Latin America

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