Colonial Pastoralism in Latin America: New Spain’s Bio-political Religious Regime

Zavala-Pelayo, Edgar

doi:10.1080/21567689.2016.1222941

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“…As would have been noted by Foucault, this colonial pastoralism deployed intensively and extensively the teleology of salvation as a governmental discourse (e.g. Acosta [1589Acosta [ ]1952Lorenzana 1769;Zavala-Pelayo 2016a, 2016b. Such a colonial-salvific religious governmentality also included distinctive technologies of government that Foucault would not have observed.…”

Section: Religious Technologies Of Government In Colonial and Early Pmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The last sub-section describes the transformed persistence of the colonial-era technology of charity in the political-governmental rationality of young members of political elites in 21 st -century Mexico. These descriptions are based on directly- (Zavala-Pelayo 2015, 2016a, 2016b, 2017 and indirectly-related ( Zavala-Pelayo 2018) research findings that have been discussed in depth elsewhere.…”

Section: Religious Technologies Of Government and Political Elites Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Religions and Political Elites in Latin America: Analysing Youth Political Elites through Religious Technologies of Government in Mexico

Zavala-Pelayo

2019

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Based on findings from empirical research in Mexico, this paper proposes a historically-reflexive governmentality approach for the study of religions and political elites in Latin America. It argues that the ideological frameworks of political elites are not only influenced by political and economic criteria and institutions but also by meta-institutional religious technologies of government that can be traced back to the colonial period and the operation of a Catholic governmental regime in Latin America. The paper discusses the case of the peculiar colonial-era technology of charity, its transformations, and its traces in the political rationality of members of youth political elites in 21 st -century Mexico.

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Section: Religious Technologies Of Government In Colonial and Early Pmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Religious Technologies Of Government and Political Elites Inmentioning

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Religions and Political Elites in Latin America: Analysing Youth Political Elites through Religious Technologies of Government in Mexico

Zavala-Pelayo

2019

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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“…3 Este texto es parte de un proyecto de investigación de largo plazo que busca analizar las tecnologías de gobierno que fueron desplegadas en territorios del norte, centro y sur de América en el periodo colonial (Zavala-Pelayo, 2016, 2018, 2020.…”

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Economia e religião

Zavala-Pelayo

2021

Cienc. Soc. y Relig.

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Desde un enfoque foucaultiano-agambeniano, el texto analiza el plano económico de las misiones jesuítico-guaraníes en Sudamérica. Se explora el despliegue de una compleja tecnología de hiper-eficientismo económico que, independientemente de su éxito o fracaso financiero, (co-)gobernó las misiones guaraníes. A través de una metodología genealógica, se sugiere que dicha tecnología de gobierno funcionaba no solo gracias a las reglas administrativas jesuitas de eficiencia operativa ya descritas por la literatura, sino también con base en lógicas (cripto-)económicas emanadas allende de las misiones, técnicas ajustadas a las realidades misionales y un espectro de resistencias indígenas, todos elementos en constante ajuste y tensión. El análisis se ofrece como contribución para los estudios sobre la historia económica de las misiones, los estudios sobre gubernamentalidad desde América Latina y para los debates sobre las continuidades y discontinuidades entre la historia religiosa del Sur de América y las actuales dimensiones socio-políticas y económicas de dicha región.

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“…The Church's pastoral care over "souls and lives," especially the family, required greater levels of discipline. 134 The regular and secular clergy divided the colony into jurisdictions, supported by parishioners' labor, tithes, and alms. Clerics were ordered to compile census data; hear and record confirmation of confessions, mass attendance, and alms-giving; instruct parishioners and observe their conduct; and report on the convocation of children, and the possible resistance of their parents.…”

Section: Discipline and Governmentality In Latin Americamentioning

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A Foucauldian Study of Spanish Colonialism

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2018

The Latin Americanist

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This article studies sixteenth‐century Spanish colonialism solely through the lens of Foucauldian thought, using his method of genealogy to return to the debate over the indigenous' capacity for reason, and his method of archeology to assess the positive systems of law and economics, particularly the law of nations, that were formulated in response to the problems of conquest and settlement. It also offers an alternative to Foucault's own history of raison d'État, showing that its foundations of Christian pastoral discipline, police, and diplomacy, rather than rising in opposition to the Spanish Crown and the Church, defined Spain's colonial order.

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Colonial Pastoralism in Latin America: New Spain’s Bio-political Religious Regime

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Religions and Political Elites in Latin America: Analysing Youth Political Elites through Religious Technologies of Government in Mexico

Religions and Political Elites in Latin America: Analysing Youth Political Elites through Religious Technologies of Government in Mexico

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