Timo Schaefer
Biographic Data
| ID | 698585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timo Schaefer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timo |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaefer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAEFER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life history and cultures of militancy in Latin America’s Cold War
Why did Latin America Lose Faith in the Law
Colonial Latin America had the fame of being a land where lower-class people were forever suing their betters. To Latin America's popular classes, the law was an indispensable instrument for claiming rights, solving conflicts, and advancing interests. Fast-forward to the middle of the twentieth century, however, and Latin American law held a very different fame. The law was now something to be shunned. It was seen as an instrument of power, manip…
Latin America’s Intellectual Independence
Journal Article Latin America’s Intellectual Independence Get access Nicola Miller. Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Cloth $39.95. Timo Schaefer Timo Schaefer University of Oxford Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 43…
Growing Up Indio during the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race and the Politics of Memory
This article explores the childhood of a Mexican Indigenous activist, Raúl Javier Gatica Bautista, who was born in 1963 in the Oaxacan market town of Tlaxiaco. Growing up in poor circumstances, Gatica would become a leader in the social movements that between the 1980s and early 2000s pushed Mexico toward gradual democratic reform. The article seeks to describe what it was like to grow up poor and Indigenous at a time (later dubbed the Mexican Mi…
Tiempos críticos: Historia, revolución y temporalidad en el mundo iberoamericano (siglos XVIII y XIX)
This is a book about Iberian and Latin American elites' attempts to think through the momentous changes they were experiencing in the late eighteenth and, above all, the early nineteenth centuries—the “tiempos críticos” of the book's title, marked by the Napoleonic invasion of Iberia in Europe and the wars of independence in Latin America. Historical ruptures confront people with intellectual as well as social and political challenges, and the ru…
Los efectos del liberalismo en México, siglo XIX
Book Review| May 01 2018 Los efectos del liberalismo en México, siglo XIX Los efectos del liberalismo en México, siglo XIX. Edited by Ohmstede, Antonio Escobar, Medina Bustos, José Marcos, and Trejo Contreras, Zulema. Hermosilla, Mexico: El Colegio de Sonora; Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2015. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 353 pp. Paper. Timo Schaefer Timo Schaefer Brande…
Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900
Liberalism as Utopia challenges widespread perceptions about the weakness of Mexico's nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non-elite Mexicans - peasants, day laborers, artisans, local merchants - pioneered an egalitarian form of legal rule by serving in the town governments and civic militias that became the local faces of the state's coercive authority. These institutions were effective because they embodi…
Law of the Land? Hacienda Power and the Challenge of Republicanism in Postindependence Mexico
Recent scholarship has shown that Latin American popular actors engaged creatively with the new system of republican law that followed the region's independence from Spanish rule. But what impact did republican citizenship rights have on political relations on large agricultural estates, or haciendas, where settlements existed on privately owned land? How did local governance function in the absence of public space for republican institutions to …
Soldiers and Civilians
This article examines the history of warfare in the largely indigenous Mixteca region in Oaxaca during the Mexican War of Independence. Paying special attention to the relation between royalist and insurgent armies and native Mixtecans, the article argues that in the years 1814 and 1815, warfare became a pervasive fact for people. Unlike people in other regions of Mexico, however, Mixtecans showed relatively little interest in the war’s political…
Engaging Modernity: The political making of indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, 1900–2008
Most analyses of the recent indigenous mobilisations in Bolivia and Ecuador (as well as other Latin American countries) have sharply divided the new indigenous politics from earlier class-based political projects of the left. The emergence and mass-appeal of indigenous movements, in these analyses, are rooted in ethnic and cultural cleavages between indigenous peoples and the rest of Bolivian and Ecuadorean society. This article argues that a pol…
Engaging Modernity: The political making of indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, 1900–2008
Most analyses of the recent indigenous mobilisations in Bolivia and Ecuador (as well as other Latin American countries) have sharply divided the new indigenous politics from earlier class-based political projects of the left. The emergence and mass-appeal of indigenous movements, in these analyses, are rooted in ethnic and cultural cleavages between indigenous peoples and the rest of Bolivian and Ecuadorean society. This article argues that a pol…
Soldiers and Civilians
This article examines the history of warfare in the largely indigenous Mixteca region in Oaxaca during the Mexican War of Independence. Paying special attention to the relation between royalist and insurgent armies and native Mixtecans, the article argues that in the years 1814 and 1815, warfare became a pervasive fact for people. Unlike people in other regions of Mexico, however, Mixtecans showed relatively little interest in the war’s political…
Law of the Land? Hacienda Power and the Challenge of Republicanism in Postindependence Mexico
Recent scholarship has shown that Latin American popular actors engaged creatively with the new system of republican law that followed the region's independence from Spanish rule. But what impact did republican citizenship rights have on political relations on large agricultural estates, or haciendas, where settlements existed on privately owned land? How did local governance function in the absence of public space for republican institutions to …
Engaging Modernity: The political making of indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, 1900–2008
Most analyses of the recent indigenous mobilisations in Bolivia and Ecuador (as well as other Latin American countries) have sharply divided the new indigenous politics from earlier class-based political projects of the left. The emergence and mass-appeal of indigenous movements, in these analyses, are rooted in ethnic and cultural cleavages between indigenous peoples and the rest of Bolivian and Ecuadorean society. This article argues that a pol…
Soldiers and Civilians
This article examines the history of warfare in the largely indigenous Mixteca region in Oaxaca during the Mexican War of Independence. Paying special attention to the relation between royalist and insurgent armies and native Mixtecans, the article argues that in the years 1814 and 1815, warfare became a pervasive fact for people. Unlike people in other regions of Mexico, however, Mixtecans showed relatively little interest in the war’s political…
Law of the Land? Hacienda Power and the Challenge of Republicanism in Postindependence Mexico
Recent scholarship has shown that Latin American popular actors engaged creatively with the new system of republican law that followed the region's independence from Spanish rule. But what impact did republican citizenship rights have on political relations on large agricultural estates, or haciendas, where settlements existed on privately owned land? How did local governance function in the absence of public space for republican institutions to …
Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900
Liberalism as Utopia challenges widespread perceptions about the weakness of Mexico's nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non-elite Mexicans - peasants, day laborers, artisans, local merchants - pioneered an egalitarian form of legal rule by serving in the town governments and civic militias that became the local faces of the state's coercive authority. These institutions were effective because they embodi…
Los efectos del liberalismo en México, siglo XIX
Book Review| May 01 2018 Los efectos del liberalismo en México, siglo XIX Los efectos del liberalismo en México, siglo XIX. Edited by Ohmstede, Antonio Escobar, Medina Bustos, José Marcos, and Trejo Contreras, Zulema. Hermosilla, Mexico: El Colegio de Sonora; Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2015. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 353 pp. Paper. Timo Schaefer Timo Schaefer Brande…
Latin America’s Intellectual Independence
Journal Article Latin America’s Intellectual Independence Get access Nicola Miller. Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Cloth $39.95. Timo Schaefer Timo Schaefer University of Oxford Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 43…
Growing Up Indio during the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race and the Politics of Memory
This article explores the childhood of a Mexican Indigenous activist, Raúl Javier Gatica Bautista, who was born in 1963 in the Oaxacan market town of Tlaxiaco. Growing up in poor circumstances, Gatica would become a leader in the social movements that between the 1980s and early 2000s pushed Mexico toward gradual democratic reform. The article seeks to describe what it was like to grow up poor and Indigenous at a time (later dubbed the Mexican Mi…
Tiempos críticos: Historia, revolución y temporalidad en el mundo iberoamericano (siglos XVIII y XIX)
This is a book about Iberian and Latin American elites' attempts to think through the momentous changes they were experiencing in the late eighteenth and, above all, the early nineteenth centuries—the “tiempos críticos” of the book's title, marked by the Napoleonic invasion of Iberia in Europe and the wars of independence in Latin America. Historical ruptures confront people with intellectual as well as social and political challenges, and the ru…
Life history and cultures of militancy in Latin America’s Cold War
Why did Latin America Lose Faith in the Law
Colonial Latin America had the fame of being a land where lower-class people were forever suing their betters. To Latin America's popular classes, the law was an indispensable instrument for claiming rights, solving conflicts, and advancing interests. Fast-forward to the middle of the twentieth century, however, and Latin American law held a very different fame. The law was now something to be shunned. It was seen as an instrument of power, manip…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Latin Americans (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Democracy (4 works)