Paulo Drinot
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 512156 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paulo Drinot |
| NOMBRES | Paulo |
| APELLIDO | Drinot |
| FIRMA | DRINOT P |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3717-1383 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
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Historias del trabajo y de la prostitución en América Latina
This section is based on an investigation into what the accumulation of studies on Latin America can contribute to historiographical reflection on work and commercial sex. To this end, it brings together authors who wrote about prostitution in Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Peru between the end of the 19th century and the end of the 20th century. They were invited to reflect on the connections and tensions between the histories of prostitution and …
Entrevista
Fuentes Históricas del Perú (FHP) se ha convertido en un recurso imprescindible para la investigación histórica en el país. Esta iniciativa, liderada por estudiantes de universidades peruanas, representa un avance significativo en el proceso más amplio de creación de recursos digitales para la investigación histórica y el desarrollo de las humanidades digitales en Perú. En esta entrevista, realizada a fines de 2023 por Paulo Drinot con Jair Miran…
Entrevista a Nelson Manrique
En esta entrevista, realizada en junio del 2023, los historiadores Paulo Drinot y Nelson Manrique conversan sobre la biografía, la producción historiográfica, la militancia política, la docencia universitaria, y la labor periodística, del segundo. La entrevista abre una ventana sobre la vida y obra de uno de los intelectuales más importantes e influyentes en el Perú de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y comienzos del siglo XXI
Global Mariátegui
In this commentary, I consider Mariátegui's globality. I begin by discussing his status as the pre-eminent Latin American Marxist. I then consider the fact that he continues to be ignored or marginalised by scholarship in English on Marxism and the global history of the Left. I note, however, that in recent years, 'global' interest in Mariátegui (i.e. beyond Latin America) has increased. This leads me to a consideration of two types of Mariátegui…
Laboring Lives
Until recently, historians, including labor historians, tended to view biography as an inferior genre of historical writing. This has started to change, as biography moves away from its narrow focus on “great men.” Historians increasingly see it as a way to explore, as Marx famously suggested, how men make their own history albeit not under circumstances of their choosing. This essay examines recent biographies of three of the most important labo…
Necrophilia, Psychiatry, and Sexology
In this article, I draw on two sets of sources to explore how Peruvian doctors tried to make sense of what had driven a man to engage in necrophilia in late 1942. On the one hand, I examine the case history and other related documentation that I located in Lima’s psychiatric hospital. On the other, I study a detailed article written on the case by Dr Lucio D. Castro and published in 1943. Together, these sources provide rich evidence on how Peruv…
Making the Revolution
Coronavirus en el Reino Unido
Este artículo ofrece una reflexión sobre las políticas iniciales desarrolladas en el Reino Unido durante la pandemia de SARS-CoV-2
The Sexual Question
The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the spread of venereal disease by medically policing female prostitutes. Its closure in 1956 was arguably the high point of abolitionism, a transnational movement originating in the 1860s that advocated that regulation was not only ineffective from a public health perspective, but also morally wrong. The Sexual…
Caribbean Revolutions
This is a relatively short book, intended primarily for use in the classroom. The authors, Rachel A. May, Alejandro Schneider and Roberto González Arana, offer a synthetic overview of revolutionary movements in five different national contexts. The book is written in an accessible style and each chapter follows a common pattern, with attention to the changing structure, ideology and mobilisation strategies of several revolutionary groups across f…
Ambassadors of the working class
Politics after Violence
In Defiance of Boundaries
Anarchism is back. For over a decade, ‘new anarchists’, as anthropologist David Graeber calls them, have been a key feature of anti-capitalist protests in the Global North, from Seattle to Wall Str
The New Deal
Reviewed by: The New Deal: A Global History by Kiran Klaus Patel Paulo Drinot Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2016) In this book, Kiran Klaus Patel approaches the New Deal as a key element of the "critical repositioning of America in the world (2) that followed the Great Depression. As Patel convincingly shows, the New Deal "shared more with processes in other parts of the world than is nor…
Leviathan and the Magic Bullet
A new book tries to explain historical variations in the rise of the state in four Latin American countries. The author's inclination to reduce history to data results in much of the story being left out
Raúl Necochea López, A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the 1990s, the government of Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru between 1990 and 2000, implemented a mass sterilisation campaign. Doctors sterilised as many as 300,000 women and a number of men, often without obtaining consent. First promoted as a progressive measure that gave women control over their fertility, Fujimori’s campaign has come to be seen, correctly, as an authoritarian measure that targeted primarily poor indigenous women becaus…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Foucault in the Land of the Incas
José R. Jouve Martín, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Jouve Martín's book examines a time, the late colonial and early republican period, when ‘individuals of African descent, broadly referred to in the documentation as negros, mulatos and pardos, played a prominent role in the practice of medicine in Lima’ (p. xiii). He focuses on three doctors, José Manuel Valdés (1767–1843), José Manuel Dávalos (1758–1821) and José Pastor de Larrinaga (1758–c. 1821). They were members of a larger cohort of Afro-P…
Peru in Theory
Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory
Indelible Inequalities in Latin America
Creole Anti-Communism
Recent research has reminded us of the centrality of anti-Communism to the politics of the Cold War in Latin America. This article focuses on a form of anti-Communism that I call creole anti-Communism, which predated the Cold War and was not imposed from abroad or indeed from above. In Peru, anti-Communism proved a key idiom through which the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) sought to gain control over organized labor and to challe…
Website of memory
This article is an examination of the comments attached to a video upload on YouTube of a Chilean television mini-series on the War of the Pacific (1879–84), one of Latin America’s rare international wars, which pitted Chile against Peru and Bolivia, and which in many ways remains an open historical wound. Posted by anonymous commentators whose national subject positions as Chileans, Peruvians, Bolivians and Argentines are nevertheless discernabl…
Latin American comics in the twenty-first century. Transgressing the frame
The Meaning of Alan García
This paper draws on Foucault's distinction between sovereign power and governmentality, and on subsequent theoretical developments of that distinction by, among others, Agamben, Butler, Wendy Brown and Aiwha Ong, to explore a key aspect of the neoliberal 'revolution' of current Peruvian president Alan García. I argue that García's instrumental conflation of political and biopolitical enemies in his denunciations of those who oppose his revolution…
Food, Race and Working-Class Identity
And tell me, which President looked to the future? It was, believe it or not, [Sánchez] Cerro. I fully recognize that he was able to look to the future and ... he grabbed the rich [by the neck] and took part of their wealth, you there [he said], you’re going to give me potatoes, you’re going to give me yucca, you’re going to give me sweet potatoes, he told them, to feed the poor neighborhoods, you bring me rice, meat, you tell me you have five hu…
Creole Anti-Communism
Recent research has reminded us of the centrality of anti-Communism to the politics of the Cold War in Latin America. This article focuses on a form of anti-Communism that I call creole anti-Communism, which predated the Cold War and was not imposed from abroad or indeed from above. In Peru, anti-Communism proved a key idiom through which the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) sought to gain control over organized labor and to challe…
Website of memory
This article is an examination of the comments attached to a video upload on YouTube of a Chilean television mini-series on the War of the Pacific (1879–84), one of Latin America’s rare international wars, which pitted Chile against Peru and Bolivia, and which in many ways remains an open historical wound. Posted by anonymous commentators whose national subject positions as Chileans, Peruvians, Bolivians and Argentines are nevertheless discernabl…
A century of revolution
The 1934 Southern Railway Strike in Peru
This article examines the 1934 Southern Railway Strike, a largely neglected yet important episode in Peruvian labour history. The strike, which pitted the British-owned Peruvian Corporation against its workforce, resulted in victory for the company. Drawing on a variety of original primary sources, I examine the factors that shaped the development and outcome of the strike. I pay particular attention to the strategies developed by the company man…
Orin Starn — Nightwatch
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Historiografia Peruana
Fighting for a Closed Shop
This article uses the 1931 strike by the Lima bakery workers' union as an optic through which to study the politicisation of industrial relations in the context of the emergence of populist politics in Peru. Faced with a loss of control over the bakery workforce and a hostile and ineffective system of collective bargaining, the union turned to an alternative strategy in its attempts to gain control over the workforce and the productive process. I…
Historiography, Historiographic Identity and Historical Consciousness in Peru
On 27 April 2003, Lima's newly elected mayor, Luis Castañeda, ordered the removal of Francisco Pizarro's statue from the Plaza Mayor. For some 50 years, the equestrian statue of the conquistador from Extremadura had stood in a little adjacent plaza on the north-eastern corner of the main plaza. The mayor justified the decision to remove the statue on the grounds that 'the little plaza must be a symbol of all Peru and for this reason it will be re…
Madness, Neurasthenia, and "Modernity"
This article examines medico-legal and popular interpretations of suicide in early twentieth-century Lima. In this period, often referred to as the Aristocratic Republic, physicians and lawyers interpreted suicide through the lens of modern scientific and legal thought and came to challenge the traditional interpretations of the Church, which insisted that suicide was a voluntary act. For these groups, suicide, almost invariably an act of madness…
The 1934 Southern Railway Strike in Peru
This article examines the 1934 Southern Railway Strike, a largely neglected yet important episode in Peruvian labour history. The strike, which pitted the British-owned Peruvian Corporation against its workforce, resulted in victory for the company. Drawing on a variety of original primary sources, I examine the factors that shaped the development and outcome of the strike. I pay particular attention to the strategies developed by the company man…
Food, Race and Working-Class Identity
And tell me, which President looked to the future? It was, believe it or not, [Sánchez] Cerro. I fully recognize that he was able to look to the future and ... he grabbed the rich [by the neck] and took part of their wealth, you there [he said], you’re going to give me potatoes, you’re going to give me yucca, you’re going to give me sweet potatoes, he told them, to feed the poor neighborhoods, you bring me rice, meat, you tell me you have five hu…
For whom the eye cries
This paper explores the polemic that erupted in early 2007 in Peru over the monument called The Eye that Cries (El ojo que llora). This monument, which commemorates the victims of Peru's recent political violence, has become key to Peru's ongoing 'battles for memory' or 'memory struggles', struggles that pit opposing memories of the decade and a half of violence in the 1980s and 1990s. I argue that this polemic offers a privileged perspective fro…
Lines in the Sand
Che’s Travels
Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che's Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single …
Website of memory
This article is an examination of the comments attached to a video upload on YouTube of a Chilean television mini-series on the War of the Pacific (1879–84), one of Latin America’s rare international wars, which pitted Chile against Peru and Bolivia, and which in many ways remains an open historical wound. Posted by anonymous commentators whose national subject positions as Chileans, Peruvians, Bolivians and Argentines are nevertheless discernabl…
A century of revolution
The Meaning of Alan García
This paper draws on Foucault's distinction between sovereign power and governmentality, and on subsequent theoretical developments of that distinction by, among others, Agamben, Butler, Wendy Brown and Aiwha Ong, to explore a key aspect of the neoliberal 'revolution' of current Peruvian president Alan García. I argue that García's instrumental conflation of political and biopolitical enemies in his denunciations of those who oppose his revolution…
Indelible Inequalities in Latin America
Creole Anti-Communism
Recent research has reminded us of the centrality of anti-Communism to the politics of the Cold War in Latin America. This article focuses on a form of anti-Communism that I call creole anti-Communism, which predated the Cold War and was not imposed from abroad or indeed from above. In Peru, anti-Communism proved a key idiom through which the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) sought to gain control over organized labor and to challe…
Peru in Theory
Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory
Foucault in the Land of the Incas
José R. Jouve Martín, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Jouve Martín's book examines a time, the late colonial and early republican period, when ‘individuals of African descent, broadly referred to in the documentation as negros, mulatos and pardos, played a prominent role in the practice of medicine in Lima’ (p. xiii). He focuses on three doctors, José Manuel Valdés (1767–1843), José Manuel Dávalos (1758–1821) and José Pastor de Larrinaga (1758–c. 1821). They were members of a larger cohort of Afro-P…
Leviathan and the Magic Bullet
A new book tries to explain historical variations in the rise of the state in four Latin American countries. The author's inclination to reduce history to data results in much of the story being left out
Raúl Necochea López, A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the 1990s, the government of Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru between 1990 and 2000, implemented a mass sterilisation campaign. Doctors sterilised as many as 300,000 women and a number of men, often without obtaining consent. First promoted as a progressive measure that gave women control over their fertility, Fujimori’s campaign has come to be seen, correctly, as an authoritarian measure that targeted primarily poor indigenous women becaus…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
In Defiance of Boundaries
Anarchism is back. For over a decade, ‘new anarchists’, as anthropologist David Graeber calls them, have been a key feature of anti-capitalist protests in the Global North, from Seattle to Wall Str
The New Deal
Reviewed by: The New Deal: A Global History by Kiran Klaus Patel Paulo Drinot Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2016) In this book, Kiran Klaus Patel approaches the New Deal as a key element of the "critical repositioning of America in the world (2) that followed the Great Depression. As Patel convincingly shows, the New Deal "shared more with processes in other parts of the world than is nor…
Ambassadors of the working class
Politics after Violence
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