Conceiving the Multitude
Eighteenth-Century Popular Riots and the Modern Language of Social Disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5770832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pablo Sánchez León (0000-0003-0038-0413, University of the Basque Country, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 511-533 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859011000393 |
| OpenAlex | W2314269431 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
The image of the crowd as an irrational, spontaneous multitude is commonly related to the works of a first generation of social psychologists writing in the early twentieth century, yet its basic features can be found in conceptual innovations developed as early as the Enlightenment. This article focuses on a particular protest in eighteenth-century Spain in order to reflect on the transformation in the meaning of essential terms which occurred in the semantic field of disorder. The so-called motín de Esquilache of 1766 forced the authorities to renew their discourse in order to deprive the movement of legitimacy, fostering semantic innovation. The redefinition of riot implied a process of conceptualization that not only stressed the protagonism of the disenfranchized but also altered a long-established tradition that linked riots to conspiracies and devised a new anthropology depicting the populace as a subject unable to produce ideas on its own
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |