Eva Botella-Ordinas
Eva Botella-Ordinas is Associated Professor of Early Modern History at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has been Fellow at the European University Institute, the John Carter Brown Library, the International Seminar for the History of the Atlantic World, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University; visiting scholar at Harvard University and lecturer of the Bing Overseas Studies of Stanford University in Madrid. She has published several books and articles on intellectual history, political history, legal history, Atlantic history, animal history and history of emotions, such as: “Debating Empires, Inventing Empires: British Territorial Claims Against the Spaniards in America, 1670-1714” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Spring/Summer 2010, vol. 10, n. 1, pp. 142-168; “Exempt from time and from its fatal change. The Spanish imperial ideology, 1590-1700”, Renaissance Studies (Renaissance Studies, 2012); “Livestock” (Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, 2013) o “Colonialism-Postcolonialism” (Oxford Bibliographies Online, Atlantic History, 2013). She has been member or principal researcher of several international research projects, and was co-organizer of an European project (METABODY : http://www.metabody.eu/ ) working on personhood, cognition, emotions, disabilities and legal international history during the XIX and XX centuries, from the animal studies and posthuman historical perspectives. Currently he is the principal researcher and coorganizer of the European Research Project: POSTORY: HISTORIANS, MNEMOHISTORY AND THE CRAFTERS OF THE PAST IN THE POSTOURISTIC ERA: https://postoryuam.wordpress.com/
Among her interests: Early Modern European History, Intellectual and Cultural History, Early Modern Empires, Atlantic History, Global History, International History, History of Spain, Monarchy of Spain, British Empire, Royal Society, John Locke, Enviromental History, History of Animals, Animal Studies, Cultural History, History of Emotions, History of movement and Gesture, History of Cognitive Sciences, History of international law and human and animal rights, history of ecology, Memory Studies, Gender Studies, Queer, teaching innovation, Big History, Identities.
Phone: 0034 91 497 31 73
Address: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Edif.. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Departamento de Historia Moderna.
Módulo VI. Despacho 2.06
C/ Fco. Tomás y Valiente, 1
28049 Madrid, España
Among her interests: Early Modern European History, Intellectual and Cultural History, Early Modern Empires, Atlantic History, Global History, International History, History of Spain, Monarchy of Spain, British Empire, Royal Society, John Locke, Enviromental History, History of Animals, Animal Studies, Cultural History, History of Emotions, History of movement and Gesture, History of Cognitive Sciences, History of international law and human and animal rights, history of ecology, Memory Studies, Gender Studies, Queer, teaching innovation, Big History, Identities.
Phone: 0034 91 497 31 73
Address: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Edif.. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Departamento de Historia Moderna.
Módulo VI. Despacho 2.06
C/ Fco. Tomás y Valiente, 1
28049 Madrid, España
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(UAM FyL, DEMOSPAZ, UCM - Historia, UAM - Politécnica)
ESTUDIO DEL IMPACTO DE LAS NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS EN LA PERCEPCIÓN IDENTITIARIA Y COMPORTAMIENTO DE TURISTAS Y HABITANTES, ANÁLISIS DE MEMORIAS COLECTIVAS EN DICHOS ENTORNOS Y DE SUS NARRATIVAS, CONTRASTE CON LAS NARRATIVAS MEDIÁTICAS E HISTORIOGRÁFICAS; INVESTIGACIÓN DEL HISTORIADOR COMO SUJETO Y OBJETO DE ESTUDIO Y DE NUEVAS NARRATIVAS HISTÓRICAS MÁS CIENTÍFICAS Y MÁS FÁCILES DE DIFUNDIR: https://postoryuam.wordpress.com/
My starting point was Peter Harrison´s excellent article about the moral potential dimension of non-human-animal passions in relation to human passions during the XVII Century. Yet his perspective is more philosophical than historical and more national than international, and it does not deal with both the moral person and particular individuals—either human or non-human animals—and with the bigger political debates in which the writings about the animal passions were produced. To study the varieties and nuances of the three generic explanations about animal passions described by Harrison (theriophilist, traditional and Cartesian) was essential to understand the authors ´intentions and problems; even more taking into account these writings coexisted with juridical practices attributing some moral responsibility to non-human animals (animals´ trials). This complex reality might have derived from a complex perception of human and non-human animal´s passions, emotions and rationality, and from the diverse contexts framing the writers’ ´theories. I am studying a huge and yet well connected geographical space—both the British and the Spanish empires—because both were global empires and I can study the topic away from a national perspective; because there were connections and political debates between both empires, and because I could handle better the project starting from my current project on both empires. At the same time I narrowed the Project both chronologically--from Westfalia to Utrecht—and institutionally—studying some authors within the Royal Society and the Society of Jesus. Both as major imperial institutions with defined economic and political interests in these empires, both supporting science with theology. I will explore whether both theologies had points of contact; maybe Latitudinarianism through Arminianism is close to Catholicism; and see if that is the case in relation to these matters. From Spain I would like to study Eusebius Nieremberg, Francisco Gutiérrez de los Ríos (the Spanish “Samuel Pepys”) and the Marquis of Mondéjar with his Jesuit network of information in England, his American interests and defending the ideology of the Monarchy of Spain, among others. And from England I will study Locke, the third Count of Shastesbury and the filosopher Damaris Cudworth (and the debate between her, Leibnizt and Pierre Bayle on Bayle´s article on Hieronymus Rorarius about the animal passions), among others; they all were linked to the Royal Society, had imperial interests and defended British imperial ideology.
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Talks by Eva Botella-Ordinas
6 de Septiembre de 2017, 17.00 - MESA REDONDA: Alternativas ecosociales en el Siglo de la Gran Prueba. Iván Murray, Eva Botella, Pilar Vega, Adrián Almazán.
(UAM FyL, DEMOSPAZ, UCM - Historia, UAM - Politécnica)
ESTUDIO DEL IMPACTO DE LAS NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS EN LA PERCEPCIÓN IDENTITIARIA Y COMPORTAMIENTO DE TURISTAS Y HABITANTES, ANÁLISIS DE MEMORIAS COLECTIVAS EN DICHOS ENTORNOS Y DE SUS NARRATIVAS, CONTRASTE CON LAS NARRATIVAS MEDIÁTICAS E HISTORIOGRÁFICAS; INVESTIGACIÓN DEL HISTORIADOR COMO SUJETO Y OBJETO DE ESTUDIO Y DE NUEVAS NARRATIVAS HISTÓRICAS MÁS CIENTÍFICAS Y MÁS FÁCILES DE DIFUNDIR: https://postoryuam.wordpress.com/
My starting point was Peter Harrison´s excellent article about the moral potential dimension of non-human-animal passions in relation to human passions during the XVII Century. Yet his perspective is more philosophical than historical and more national than international, and it does not deal with both the moral person and particular individuals—either human or non-human animals—and with the bigger political debates in which the writings about the animal passions were produced. To study the varieties and nuances of the three generic explanations about animal passions described by Harrison (theriophilist, traditional and Cartesian) was essential to understand the authors ´intentions and problems; even more taking into account these writings coexisted with juridical practices attributing some moral responsibility to non-human animals (animals´ trials). This complex reality might have derived from a complex perception of human and non-human animal´s passions, emotions and rationality, and from the diverse contexts framing the writers’ ´theories. I am studying a huge and yet well connected geographical space—both the British and the Spanish empires—because both were global empires and I can study the topic away from a national perspective; because there were connections and political debates between both empires, and because I could handle better the project starting from my current project on both empires. At the same time I narrowed the Project both chronologically--from Westfalia to Utrecht—and institutionally—studying some authors within the Royal Society and the Society of Jesus. Both as major imperial institutions with defined economic and political interests in these empires, both supporting science with theology. I will explore whether both theologies had points of contact; maybe Latitudinarianism through Arminianism is close to Catholicism; and see if that is the case in relation to these matters. From Spain I would like to study Eusebius Nieremberg, Francisco Gutiérrez de los Ríos (the Spanish “Samuel Pepys”) and the Marquis of Mondéjar with his Jesuit network of information in England, his American interests and defending the ideology of the Monarchy of Spain, among others. And from England I will study Locke, the third Count of Shastesbury and the filosopher Damaris Cudworth (and the debate between her, Leibnizt and Pierre Bayle on Bayle´s article on Hieronymus Rorarius about the animal passions), among others; they all were linked to the Royal Society, had imperial interests and defended British imperial ideology.
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6 de Septiembre de 2017, 17.00 - MESA REDONDA: Alternativas ecosociales en el Siglo de la Gran Prueba. Iván Murray, Eva Botella, Pilar Vega, Adrián Almazán.
La memoria histórica (tanto personal como colectiva) forma parte de nuestra identidad (fluctuante), que nos es constitutiva (nuestro patrimonio): como somos seres vulnerables y relacionales, la desarticulación de nuestras comunidades supone una amputación de nuestras personas y tiene efectos devastadores para nuestro entorno, nicho socio-ecológico relacional (que al ser glocal, tiene efectos globales). El colapso ecológico y social actual hace imperativo repensar urgentemente esas políticas globales y su dimensión glocal. La información sesgada o falsa junto con la centralidad de la imagen, potenciadas mediante las nuevas tecnologías, torsionan nuestra memoria y comportamientos. Esas prácticas neoliberales dan peso a un modo de vida y a una historia oficial que no recogen gran parte de la realidad, ni las necesidades demandadas por quienes habitan esos espacios glocales, plurales, mestizos, multisituados, ni encuentra sustento en las disciplinas académicas (como la propia historia), que dan cuenta de una realidad mucho más compleja y frecuentemente silenciada.
Frente a dichas violencias, las vecinas generan resistencias, abarcando colectivamente las múltiples facetas de la vida humana tanto reactivas como prácticas de vida buena. Desde una perspectiva postcolonial es preciso dar voz a las mismas y visibilizarlas, recuperar la memoria de sus experiencias de violencia y sus alternativas, permitiendo que reescriban la historia propia, cuestionen las versiones oficiales de la misma, y construyan su propio futuro.
The demographic review of the Comarca of Campo de Gibraltar between 1960 and 1992 reveals the existence of demographic CRISES in 1965, 1970, 1980-81 and 1991. The first two have their roots in political decisions that derive from 1969 in the closing of the border with Gibraltar, in the outdated Development Plan and in the inadequacy of its activities regarding the potential economic and human resources of the region. The third crisis is linked to a paralysis of industrial growth, a consequence of the world crisis of 1975, which is transferred to the area in 1978 and has demographic repercussions in 1980-81. The fourth crisis begins in 1990 and develops in 1991 and is demographically milder. Its analysis requires some historical perspective, but it is likely to be caused by the world crisis of 1990. The region is one of the few thriving centers of industrial activity in Andalusia, meeting point of two continents and key to the Mediterranean. It has an extraordinary potential for fishing and agro-alimentary activities, which is why it requires greater political attention, primarily by solving the problem of communications, which seriously harms the economic activities, as well as encouraging activities based on autochthonous resources. The massive and intelligent application of EU resources could break the five-year-decade scheme of regional crises.
Abstract: This article analyzes the historical context of the political discourses around “imperiophilia” and “imperiophobia” -or black and pink legends – from a decolonial intellectual history approach, and their imperialist consequences as official memory. This is illustrated through three examples: some enlightened reformist discourses about “public happiness”; the political genealogy and debate about the Spanish national day on October 12; and cannibalism by canonical western thinkers.
Palabras clave: Imperiofilia, imperiofobia, memoria, historia, leyenda.
Keywords: imperiophilia, imperiophobia, memory, history, legend.
Submitted: 09/01/2021 Accepted: 09/25/2021
The current paper offers an original methodology in university-based learning on history, focusing on social justice education and the formation of active citizens on peace culture. These dealsnot only with narratives about the past (identity processes connecting the past with the present through the mechanisms of memory) but also with citizen conscience and process of transition to ecology. Thus, we employ categories and a toolkit drawn from postcolonialism and feminism, while encouraging collaborative work to promote a culture based in peace. The case study is the design of cooperative tabletop games applied in the undergraduate curricula of International Studies and History Grades at Autonomous University of Madrid. In the introduction,we consider the pedagogic methodologies in a context of college education, discussing issues regarding the role of the past in the formation of a globally active citizenship and the training in peace. Secondly, we analyze its relevance for the teaching of history. Thirdly, we explain the methodology followed in our fieldwork and describe both the tools and dynamics employed. The analysis of the resulting data allows us to discuss the results of our researchin relation with the initial goals, and how the project can be further improved. Finally, we explain the advantages and disadvantages of applying such a methodology and its future possibilities.
RESUMEN: Estudio del debate historiográfico hispano de la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, en el que se revisaron los mitos fundacionales de los territorios de la Monarquía, de cuño histórico y jurídico, y el de la propia Monarquía, de base teológica, en relación con la crisis política, atendiendo a los problemas sucesorios, que en algún caso supuso la invención del concepto “Corona de España” para salvaguardar la unidad territorial de la Monarquía en la crisis sucesoria.
ABSTRACT: Study of the Hispanic historiographical debate during the second half of the 17th century, in which the historical and legal foundational myths of the territories of the Monarchy were reviewed, as well as the theological myths of the Monarchy, in relation to the political crisis and the problems of succession, which in some cases involved the invention of the concept of "Crown of Spain" to safeguard the territorial unity of the Monarchy in the succession crisis.
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nation :explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world, Stanford: Stanford University, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8047-5543-6
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Puritan conquistadors :iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. ISBN 78-0-8047-4279-5
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