Colonial Pastoralism in Latin America
New Spain’s Bio-political Religious Regime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13040331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edgar Zavala-Pelayo (0000-0001-6060-2351, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 172-190 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics Religion & Ideology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2156-7697 • E-ISSN: 2156-7689 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21567689.2016.1222941 |
| OpenAlex | W2510717525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
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
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |