The Inter-Atlantic Paradigm: The Failure of Spanish Medieval Colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands

Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M.

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“…Not only were the islanders' social, economic, and religious practices banned and replaced by the colonizers'; merely a century after the start of colonial operations, it is estimated that the archipelago's indigenous population had dropped from 70,000 to 10,000. By the end of the sixteenth century, Spanish authors already talked about the extinction of the Guanches and their irreversible intermingling with the newcomers (Stevens-Arroyo 1993). Unlike the case of the Americas or Australia, the study of indigenous lifeworlds in the Canary Islands is therefore complicated by the bio-socio-cultural discontinuity, or rather rupture, produced by colonial rule -put simply, there are no living Guanches in the Canaries today, and there haven't been for a long while.…”

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“…Not only were the islanders’ social, economic, and religious practices banned and replaced by the colonizers’; merely a century after the start of colonial operations, it is estimated that the archipelago's indigenous population had dropped from 70,000 to 10,000. By the end of the sixteenth century, Spanish authors already talked about the extinction of the Guanches and their irreversible intermingling with the newcomers (Stevens‐Arroyo 1993).…”

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More than a mountain: the contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)

Marrero‐Guillamón

2021

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been surrounded by controversy since the mid-1990s. It is, at once, a listed indigenous site, a protected natural environment, a mining resource, and the designated location of a monumental intervention by artist Eduardo Chillida, consisting in digging a grand cubic cave in its interior. This article conceptualizes Tindaya as a contentious multiplicity and analyses the mountain's competing enactments. The state's Tindaya is a 'partitioned' mountain, an entity split into different dimensions (cultural and natural; interior and exterior) that can be both legally protected and excavated. In contrast, activists have enacted a 'holistic' mountain, characterized by the inseparability of its multiple 'values' (archaeological, geological, environmental) and the need to protect it as a single whole. These two enactments constitute 'worlding' practices connected to opposing understandings of the relationship between heritage, nature, and the future. For the state, the mountain is an asset to be exploited, an opportunity to bring about prosperous futures fashioned after the spectacular projects of the metropolis. For the activists, Tindaya represents a unique opportunity to rethink the island's development model and to put indigenous heritage and environmental concerns at its centre. Tindaya's unresolved multiplicity is therefore political in the broadest sense: it is a reminder that reality can be otherwise.'Do not touch Tindaya' , read the banner; 'the Monument already exists' , said the t-shirts. A dozen activists representing the Coordinadora Montaña Tindaya (Tindaya Mountain Coordinating Committee, henceforth Coordinadora) stood at the entrance of Fuerteventura's Government Building, about to make a statement. A few local journalists awaited, mics and cameras ready. It was Thursday morning, 23 March 2017. 'We are here today' , said Santos, 1 the Coordinadora's spokesperson, 'to announce the summit taking place this weekend, which we have called "Canary Islands for Tindaya" to underline the fact that the struggle for the mountain of Tindaya, like other recent environmental disputes, is a matter of concern for the whole archipelago' . Before outlining the activities organized as part of the summit -including talks, a festival, and a guided tour of the mountain -Santos announced that the five main environmental NGOs in Spain (Friends of the Earth, Ecologistas en Acción, Greenpeace, SEO Birdlife,

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More than a mountain: the contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)

Marrero‐Guillamón

2021

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Mi trabajo aspira a expandir las ideas de investigadores y pensadores fundacionales que han revivido conceptualizaciones del Caribe como un sistema de islas. Complemento su aporte fundamental estableciendo un diálogo con estudios más recientes que se refieren a la región como un "archipiélago imperial" (Morillo Alicea, 2005;Thompson, 2010) o como un "paradigma inter-atlántico" de colonización (Stevens-Arroyo, 1993). En estos estudios, el archipiélago se utiliza para analizar cómo las condiciones geográficas han tenido un impacto en el proceso histórico de incorporación imperial de ciertas regiones durante los siglos XVI a XIX, como en los casos de las Islas Canarias, del Caribe y de las Filipinas.…”

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Archipiélagos coloniales y mexicanos : reimaginando los estudios del Caribe colonial.

Miguel

Mirabal

2019

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Este ensayo se enfoca en el archipiélago caribeño como una unidad geopolítica e histórica. El archipiélago usualmente combina grupos de islas y sus redes correspondientes de puertos, fortificaciones, plantaciones y ciudades, así como sus sistemas sociales, culturales y de producción. La primera sección analiza un corpus de mapas diseñados por cartógrafos europeos en los que el Caribe se representa como el “archipiélago de México,” para meditar sobre cómo los archipiélagos coloniales fueron imaginados en el contexto de la competencia entre imperios de los siglos XVII y XVIII. En la segunda parte de este ensayo, estudio un cuento de Tiphanie Yanique, escritora de las Islas Vírgenes estadounidenses, como un ejemplo de cómo el imaginario archipelágico colonial se transforma en un archipiélago decolonial en la literatura del siglo veintiuno. El ensayo concluye con una reflexión sobre las implicaciones y la utilidad de repensar el Caribe y los estudios caribeños desde una perspectiva archipelágica colonial y decolonial.

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The Inter-Atlantic Paradigm: The Failure of Spanish Medieval Colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands

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More than a mountain: the contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)

More than a mountain: the contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)

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