Heidi V Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 195456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi V Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi V |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT H V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
In Natural Designs, Elizabeth Gansen invites the reader to develop a detailed understanding of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's labors as a natural historian and his contributions to a field of study that was simultaneously challenged and expanded by European encounters with the New World. As the study unfolds, a picture emerges of an author whose efforts to comprehend American nature underwent constant change and revision, from his early years in D…
Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes
Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont
Whither the Waters, John L. Kessell's second book about don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, a widely known and colorful figure in the history of late colonial New Mexico, grew out of a question posed to the author at a signing event for his biographical study Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico (2013). His interlocutor, Kessell explains in the preface to Whither the Waters, asked whether Miera y Pacheco's famous …
The History of the New World: Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo - by Benzoni, Girolamo
At the Center of Everything: Regional Rivalries, Imperial Politics, and the Mapping of the Mosetenes Frontier in Late Colonial Bolivia
The late colonial mapping of frontiers in the eastern Andes of Charcas (colonial Bolivia) has been neglected both in scholarship on frontier mapping, which overlooks this region, and historical studies of frontier formation in Charcas, which pay little attention to cartography. This article examines a set of maps made by a midlevel colonial official in 1797 amid efforts to open a road from Chulumani district in the Intendancy of La Paz to the Fra…
Seeing Beyond Green
Vintage Moquegua: History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in scholarly publications that emphasize the significance of examining spatial processes, imaginations and representations in order to deepen understandings o
The Contested Spaces of the Subterranean: Colonial Governmentality, Mining, and the Mita in Early Spanish Peru
Este artículo examina las "racionalidades espaciales" (Huxley 2007) que influyeron en los debates coloniales sobre el trabajo forzado en las minas del Perú. El artículo desarrolla la idea propuesta por Huxley que las cualidades causativas de ciertos espacios desempeñan un papel importante en la formación de racionalidades gubernmentales, y considera cómo las percepciones coloniales de ambientes subterráneos estaban conectadas con ideas sobre las …
Paradise in the New World: An Iberian vision of tropicality
This article provides an in-depth exploration of early modern ideas of the American tropics in the specific context of colonial Spanish America. Its principal focus is a 17th century treatise entitled Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo (Paradise in the New World). Written in the mid-17th century by a jurist named Antonio de León Pinelo, the treatise proposes that Eden was once located in the South American tropics. León Pinelo, although born in Spain, con…
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World – By Kathleen Ann Myers
Colonialism, Landscape and the Subterranean
Recent geographical contributions to post-colonial studies have paid relatively little attention to subterranean spaces as arenas of modern European imperial and colonial expansion and instead have concentrated almost exclusively on examining 'surface' landscapes and practices. This article argues that greater critical attention deserves to be paid by geographers to the 'colonial underground', not only because mining played a central role in many…
Rethinking Landscape and Colonialism in the Context of Early Spanish Peru
Efforts to work towards the rematerialisation of landscape have recently been augmented by concerns for corporeal, nonrepresentational dimensions of landscape experience as well as for nonhuman agency. Increasingly, landscape is conceptualised as a never-finished product of processes and practices that are both material and symbolic. Although such trends are reflected to some extent in work on landscape in colonial contexts, in this paper I conte…
A Mirage of Colonial Consensus: Resettlement Schemes in Early Spanish Peru
In this paper I examine struggles over space, mobility, and indigenous human geographies that centred on the reducciones (reductions), colonial towns that were created for the purpose of controlling indigenous populations in 16th-century Spanish Peru. Drawing on recent geographical debates about 'domination' and 'resistance', I question assumptions, encountered in many studies of the reducciones, about the homogeneity and coherence of Spanish con…
Contested territories: Arenas of geographical knowledge in early colonial Peru
Colonialism, Landscape and the Subterranean
Recent geographical contributions to post-colonial studies have paid relatively little attention to subterranean spaces as arenas of modern European imperial and colonial expansion and instead have concentrated almost exclusively on examining 'surface' landscapes and practices. This article argues that greater critical attention deserves to be paid by geographers to the 'colonial underground', not only because mining played a central role in many…
Rethinking Landscape and Colonialism in the Context of Early Spanish Peru
Efforts to work towards the rematerialisation of landscape have recently been augmented by concerns for corporeal, nonrepresentational dimensions of landscape experience as well as for nonhuman agency. Increasingly, landscape is conceptualised as a never-finished product of processes and practices that are both material and symbolic. Although such trends are reflected to some extent in work on landscape in colonial contexts, in this paper I conte…
A Mirage of Colonial Consensus: Resettlement Schemes in Early Spanish Peru
In this paper I examine struggles over space, mobility, and indigenous human geographies that centred on the reducciones (reductions), colonial towns that were created for the purpose of controlling indigenous populations in 16th-century Spanish Peru. Drawing on recent geographical debates about 'domination' and 'resistance', I question assumptions, encountered in many studies of the reducciones, about the homogeneity and coherence of Spanish con…
Paradise in the New World: An Iberian vision of tropicality
This article provides an in-depth exploration of early modern ideas of the American tropics in the specific context of colonial Spanish America. Its principal focus is a 17th century treatise entitled Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo (Paradise in the New World). Written in the mid-17th century by a jurist named Antonio de León Pinelo, the treatise proposes that Eden was once located in the South American tropics. León Pinelo, although born in Spain, con…
Contested territories: Arenas of geographical knowledge in early colonial Peru
Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes
The Contested Spaces of the Subterranean: Colonial Governmentality, Mining, and the Mita in Early Spanish Peru
Este artículo examina las "racionalidades espaciales" (Huxley 2007) que influyeron en los debates coloniales sobre el trabajo forzado en las minas del Perú. El artículo desarrolla la idea propuesta por Huxley que las cualidades causativas de ciertos espacios desempeñan un papel importante en la formación de racionalidades gubernmentales, y considera cómo las percepciones coloniales de ambientes subterráneos estaban conectadas con ideas sobre las …
At the Center of Everything: Regional Rivalries, Imperial Politics, and the Mapping of the Mosetenes Frontier in Late Colonial Bolivia
The late colonial mapping of frontiers in the eastern Andes of Charcas (colonial Bolivia) has been neglected both in scholarship on frontier mapping, which overlooks this region, and historical studies of frontier formation in Charcas, which pay little attention to cartography. This article examines a set of maps made by a midlevel colonial official in 1797 amid efforts to open a road from Chulumani district in the Intendancy of La Paz to the Fra…
Contested territories: Arenas of geographical knowledge in early colonial Peru
A Mirage of Colonial Consensus: Resettlement Schemes in Early Spanish Peru
In this paper I examine struggles over space, mobility, and indigenous human geographies that centred on the reducciones (reductions), colonial towns that were created for the purpose of controlling indigenous populations in 16th-century Spanish Peru. Drawing on recent geographical debates about 'domination' and 'resistance', I question assumptions, encountered in many studies of the reducciones, about the homogeneity and coherence of Spanish con…
Rethinking Landscape and Colonialism in the Context of Early Spanish Peru
Efforts to work towards the rematerialisation of landscape have recently been augmented by concerns for corporeal, nonrepresentational dimensions of landscape experience as well as for nonhuman agency. Increasingly, landscape is conceptualised as a never-finished product of processes and practices that are both material and symbolic. Although such trends are reflected to some extent in work on landscape in colonial contexts, in this paper I conte…
Colonialism, Landscape and the Subterranean
Recent geographical contributions to post-colonial studies have paid relatively little attention to subterranean spaces as arenas of modern European imperial and colonial expansion and instead have concentrated almost exclusively on examining 'surface' landscapes and practices. This article argues that greater critical attention deserves to be paid by geographers to the 'colonial underground', not only because mining played a central role in many…
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World – By Kathleen Ann Myers
Paradise in the New World: An Iberian vision of tropicality
This article provides an in-depth exploration of early modern ideas of the American tropics in the specific context of colonial Spanish America. Its principal focus is a 17th century treatise entitled Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo (Paradise in the New World). Written in the mid-17th century by a jurist named Antonio de León Pinelo, the treatise proposes that Eden was once located in the South American tropics. León Pinelo, although born in Spain, con…
The Contested Spaces of the Subterranean: Colonial Governmentality, Mining, and the Mita in Early Spanish Peru
Este artículo examina las "racionalidades espaciales" (Huxley 2007) que influyeron en los debates coloniales sobre el trabajo forzado en las minas del Perú. El artículo desarrolla la idea propuesta por Huxley que las cualidades causativas de ciertos espacios desempeñan un papel importante en la formación de racionalidades gubernmentales, y considera cómo las percepciones coloniales de ambientes subterráneos estaban conectadas con ideas sobre las …
Seeing Beyond Green
Vintage Moquegua: History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in scholarly publications that emphasize the significance of examining spatial processes, imaginations and representations in order to deepen understandings o
At the Center of Everything: Regional Rivalries, Imperial Politics, and the Mapping of the Mosetenes Frontier in Late Colonial Bolivia
The late colonial mapping of frontiers in the eastern Andes of Charcas (colonial Bolivia) has been neglected both in scholarship on frontier mapping, which overlooks this region, and historical studies of frontier formation in Charcas, which pay little attention to cartography. This article examines a set of maps made by a midlevel colonial official in 1797 amid efforts to open a road from Chulumani district in the Intendancy of La Paz to the Fra…
The History of the New World: Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo - by Benzoni, Girolamo
Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont
Whither the Waters, John L. Kessell's second book about don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, a widely known and colorful figure in the history of late colonial New Mexico, grew out of a question posed to the author at a signing event for his biographical study Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico (2013). His interlocutor, Kessell explains in the preface to Whither the Waters, asked whether Miera y Pacheco's famous …
Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
In Natural Designs, Elizabeth Gansen invites the reader to develop a detailed understanding of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's labors as a natural historian and his contributions to a field of study that was simultaneously challenged and expanded by European encounters with the New World. As the study unfolds, a picture emerges of an author whose efforts to comprehend American nature underwent constant change and revision, from his early years in D…
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