Colonial Pastoralism in Latin America: New Spain’s Bio-political Religious Regime
Using Foucault's genealogical perspective and his concept of Christian pastoralism as a governmental proto-regime, I account in this paper for the colonial pastoralism developed in New Spain, the territory that during the Spanish colonial period (sixteenth to early-nineteenth centuries) compris...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2016
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Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 172-190 |
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| Summary: | Using Foucault's genealogical perspective and his concept of Christian pastoralism as a governmental proto-regime, I account in this paper for the colonial pastoralism developed in New Spain, the territory that during the Spanish colonial period (sixteenth to early-nineteenth centuries) comprised what is today Mexico, most of Central America and the southwestern United States. Based on a genealogical (re-)interpretation of historical sources, I put forward the emergence of a colonial pastoralism that deployed specific governmental instruments (a charitable humility), procedures (ceremonial strictness and performative correctness) and teleologies of government (doubly-integralist Christianisation and civilisation). In the paper’s final remarks I qualify this colonial pastoralism as bio-political, and suggest the significance that this and further genealogical studies of colonial pastoralism/s and governmentalities can have in the explanations of socio-political phenomena and religions-and-politics entanglements in twenty-first-century Latin America. |
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| ISSN: | 2156-7697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics, religion & ideology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2016.1222941 |