Grounding Progress and Mexican Potential
Nineteenth-Century Representations ofCongregaciónand National Unity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paige Rafoth Andersson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-251 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2019.1620710 |
| OpenAlex | W2963248144 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay shows how colonial congregación, the concentration of 'dispersed' indigenous populations by missionaries into gridded cities, continued to influence prominent nineteenth-century liberals. By reading Nicolás Pizarro's El monedero and Ignacio Altamirano's La navidad en las montañas as more than liberal artefacts, I turn to both novels' colonial roots to show how colonial constructions of race and land carried through and transformed during this crucial period of economic change and attempted state consolidation. Because of the belief that the indigenous were naturally inclined toward dispersion, colonial elites feared that the converted Indian's status was always tenuous and subject to regression. Dispersion, from that point forward, became a negative potentiality in the following centuries, and it continued to be linked to forms of land use not sanctioned by the capitalist state. Drawing form Foucault's notion of pastoral power and Jason Moore's contention that capitalism is a way of organising nature to work 'harder and harder for free', I analyse how race is constructed in the works of Pizarro and Altamirano in tandem with landscapes that are also in need of transformation – that need to be put to work – in the name of an ultimately capitalist progress
Archaeology · Capitalism · Colonialism · Ethnology · Ideology · Indigenous · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American history and culture · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
Foundational Fictions
Capitalism in the web of life
Hour of Eugenics
The Mestizo State
Parables of Coercion
Genealogical Fictions
Indian Given
The Ecological Indian
Indian Saints and Nation-States
Infrastructures of Race
Alone before God
Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |