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SUMMARY:“Inquisition, Incarceration, and Gendered Resistance in Colonial Latin A
merica”
DESCRIPTION:\nMy research addresses the lived experiences and voices of
the people imprisoned by the Inquisition in the Americas in the early se
venteenth Century through prisons in Cartagena de Indias\, Lima\, and Me
xico City. With an eye on gender and religious practice\, particularly f
or Africans and Portuguese. I discuss embodied and gendered experiences
with incarceration and the many forms of violence and resistance within
early modern prisons. The arrests I study came as part of two religious
conspiracies pursed by a family of Inquisitors\, and follows the career
of one influential Inquisitor\, showing how religion was used to craft c
onspiracies allowing for the imprisoning of political rivals. I consider
the ways in which the incarcerated expressed their wants and needs\, th
eir lives\, who they were\, and the physical and emotional sensations th
ey experienced that shaped major historical events. By focusing on the v
oices of the incarceration\, I unsettle hierarchies of power to show tha
t gender and sex played a role in imprisonment and resistance. With thes
e experiences and interconnected events across the Iberian Atlantic\, I
argue that these three prisons set a model for mass incarceration that a
llowed Spain a far-reaching control over its colonial citizens.\n\nFor m
ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/inquisition-incarceration-a
nd-gendered-resistance-in-colonial-latin-america/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:My research add
resses the lived experiences and voices of the people imprisoned by the
Inquisition in the Americas in the early seventeenth Century through pri
sons in Cartagena de Indias, Lima, and Mexico City. With an eye on gende
r and religious practice, particularly for Africans and Portuguese. I di
scuss embodied and gendered experiences with incarceration and the many
forms of violence and resistance within early modern prisons. The arrest
s I study came as part of two religious conspiracies pursed by a family
of Inquisitors, and follows the career of one influential Inquisitor, sh
owing how religion was used to craft conspiracies allowing for the impri
soning of political rivals. I consider the ways in which the incarcerate
d expressed their wants and needs, their lives, who they were, and the p
hysical and emotional sensations they experienced that shaped major hist
orical events. By focusing on the voices of the incarceration, I unsettl
e hierarchies of power to show that gender and sex played a role in impr
isonment and resistance. With these experiences and interconnected event
s across the Iberian Atlantic, I argue that these three prisons set a mo
del for mass incarceration that allowed Spain a far-reaching control ove
r its colonial citizens.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/inquisition-inca
rceration-and-gendered-resistance-in-colonial-latin-america/
LOCATION:Weaver 102
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