The Spanish-Mapuche parliaments in the colonial period: an exercise in historical interpretation in the light of cosmohistory and cosmopolitics

This article seeks to explore the potential of the concepts of cosmohistory and cosmopolitics to promote a writing of colonial American history that is attentive to the silences imposed by Western modernity. We start from the hypothesis that the cosmohistorical regime of historicity, proposed by Mex...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Gonzalez de Carvalho Seixlack, Alessandra
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Repositorio:Revista Maracanan (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br:article/78301
Acceso en línea:https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/maracanan/article/view/78301
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cosmohistória
Cosmopolítica
Parlamentos Hispano-mapuche
História da América Colonial
Cosmohistory
Cosmopolitics
Spanish-Mapuche parliaments
History of colonial America
Descripción
Sumario:This article seeks to explore the potential of the concepts of cosmohistory and cosmopolitics to promote a writing of colonial American history that is attentive to the silences imposed by Western modernity. We start from the hypothesis that the cosmohistorical regime of historicity, proposed by Mexican historian Federico Navarrete Linares, in dialogue with the cosmopolitical proposal of Belgian philosopher Isabelle Stengers, provides a theoretical-methodological alternative for thinking about the existence of other historical narratives and giving agency to commonly invisible ontologies, including Amerindian ones. To make this possible, our argument will be divided into two parts. In the first, based on a brief case study of the Spanish-Mapuche parliaments in the colonial period, we will carry out an exercise in historical interpretation in the light of cosmohistory and cosmopolitics, in order to prove that the flow of interaction between Spanish colonizers and Mapuche indigenous people transcends the unidirectional relationship of domination. In the second, we will present the heuristic advantages of the cosmohistorical and cosmopolitical perspective, as well as its ability to promote more dialogical and symmetrical relations between different historical worlds.