Public sphere in Latin America: a map of the historiography

Piccato, Pablo

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“…2In his analysis of colonial Asian maritime networks, Mark Ravinder Frost identifies two themes for a colonial public sphere: calls for unity among various groups, and cosmopolitanism as a critical (or counter) temper that permeated the attitude of a colonial public sphere; Frost, “Asia's Maritime Networks.” Pablo Piccato, who has worked on Latin American public spheres, highlights “the local, particularly urban, dimension of the emergence” of public spheres in colonial Latin America, Pablo Piccato, “Public Sphere in Latin America,” 178. Perhaps the most specific delineation of concepts that characterise a “colonial public” has been elaborated by Neeladri Bhattacharya, in a colonial Indian context.…”

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Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

Hunter¹,

James²

2020

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A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature has tended to focus on specific regions, and has often sidestepped the larger question of how to conceptualise the relationship between print media and colonial rule. While some have used the term ‘colonial public sphere’ or ‘colonial publics,’ others have preferred to avoid these terms and instead thought in terms of multiple and overlapping publics. What this literature has shown is that a single analytic model for analysing public spaces of discourse is not usable. In this Introduction to our Special Issue we propose a new framework for studying the publics created through print media in the colonial world. We outline a set of four factors – addressivity, performativity, materiality and periodicity – that can be applied to specific historical case studies. We then explain how the issue as a whole models this methodology as a means to analyse how print media (as one medium within the public sphere) functioned in specific colonial and semi-colonial spaces around the world.

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Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

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James²

2020

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“…16“‘Colonial’”—writes Piccato—“refers to several forces that transcended the severing of political ties: the notion of an original autonomy of American kingdoms and corporations, the reciprocal obligations between king and subjects that evolved into popular sovereignty after abdication, and the intense urban political life.” Piccato, “Public Sphere in Latin America,” 178.…”

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“…17See, for example, Piccato, “Public Sphere in Latin America”; Taylor, “Between Global Process and Local Knowledge”; Uribe-Urán, “The Birth of a Public Sphere in Latin America”; and Palti, “Recent Studies on the Emergence of a Public Sphere in Latin America.”…”

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Public Sphere without a Printing Press: Texts, Reading Networks, and Public Opinion in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions

Soriano¹

2020

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At the end of the eighteenth century, members of the colonial elite of the Captaincy General of Venezuela addressed a letter to the king of Spain in which they sought permission to have a printing press in the city of Caracas. In the letter, they argued that the establishment of such a press was fundamental for the economic and commercial development of the Captaincy. Months later, they learned that the permission for a printing press had been denied without further explanations. Venezuela became one of the last capital cities in colonial Spanish America to possess this technology. The lack of a printing press during this politically dynamic period moved by the Atlantic revolutions did not necessarily affect public access to reading, sharing of information, and political debate in Venezuela. Venezuela's unique geographical location, and its open and frequent connections with the Caribbean region during the Age of Revolutions allowed for the effective entrance and transit of people and written materials that spread revolutionary ideas and impressions, creating a dynamic and contested political environment. Here I argue that during the late-colonial period, semiliterate forms of knowledge transmission, partially promoted by Spanish reformism, mobilised a socially diverse public that openly debated the monarchical regime, the system of slavery, and the hierarchical socio-racial order of colonial society. The colonial public sphere in Venezuela was shaped, then, within a context of emerging socio-racial tensions and became a space of contestation and struggle, animated by the overlapping of contradictory political discourses. This study contributes to recent debates about the character, nature, and relevance of the public sphere in the colonial world. It explores the circulation of manuscripts and ephemeral written materials, the different modes of production and reception of texts that developed in the colonial context, and an analysis of the character of the urban spaces that facilitated the performativity of texts. It thus offers a new framework for understanding the emergence of a public sphere in Venezuela, a colonial peripheral province with no printing press.

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“…It is important to know how these public spheres are formed in Brazil without thereby importing the European model. Therefore, the interesting thing is to search the history of the public spheres as has been done in several places, such as Russia (GORSHKOV, 2004), the Arab countries (MURPHEY, 2009), South Korea (KOO, 2007) and Latin America (PICCATO, 2010). This process should not disregard the transnational public sphere (FRASER, 2007), but understand how it relates to the diversity of national public spheres in a cooperative and/or conflictive way.…”

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Aprofundamento das esferas públicas para a gestão social: caminhos para uma reconstrução empírico-descritiva e normativa

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Resumo Neste artigo, buscamos reconstruir as esferas públicas como uma categoria empírico-descritiva e normativa das pesquisas em gestão social. Nesse processo, revelamos que o conceito de esfera pública passou por críticas e reformulações nas obras de Habermas (1962; 1981; 1992) e que as concepções mais atuais abrangem uma pluralidade de públicos, interesses e opiniões, bem como dimensões conflitivas e potenciais opressivos. No que tange à escolha metodológica, este artigo é um ensaio teórico. Para a construção deste ensaio, foi realizada uma ampla pesquisa bibliográfica focada principalmente na literatura sobre “gestão social” e “esfera pública”. Identificamos várias lacunas e limitações nos entendimentos sobre esfera pública pelos estudos do campo da gestão social e, considerando as limitações como processos de aprendizagem, buscamos avançar a partir de novos elementos. Argumentamos que, se considerarmos as esferas públicas como locus de pesquisas da gestão social (normativo e empírico-descritivo), é importante destacar que: (1) as esferas públicas são locus de consensos e conflitos; (2) podem tanto se constituírem concretamente de elementos democráticos e emancipatórios quanto opressivos; (3) são formadas por uma diversidade de públicos (e contrapúblicos) com diferentes “capacidades” de acesso e argumentação; (4) no Brasil, houve a formação de esferas públicas subalternas; (5) as características das formações de esferas públicas não podem ser importadas e (6) a efetividade das esferas públicas é influenciada por estruturas sistêmicas. Finalmente, mostramos que a reconstrução defende o potencial descritivo, normativo e crítico das esferas públicas, especialmente, se a pluralizamos e exploramos seu desenvolvimento a partir de Habermas, seus comentadores e críticos.

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Public sphere in Latin America: a map of the historiography

Cited by 60 publications

References 77 publications

Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

Public Sphere without a Printing Press: Texts, Reading Networks, and Public Opinion in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions

Aprofundamento das esferas públicas para a gestão social: caminhos para uma reconstrução empírico-descritiva e normativa

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