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Item type: Ítem , Ressenya de Carles Brasó Broggi, Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry. Opening Up Before the Reform, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 221 pp.(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017) Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderItem type: Ítem , Item type: Ítem , Item type: Ítem , Los dioses tienen sed: reflexión sobre Proyecto Ruanda de Alfredo Jaar(Instituto de Estética - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2013) Moriente, DavidEl objetivo del artículo es reflexionar sobre el procedimiento de gestión icónica utilizado por Alfredo Jaar (Santiago, 1956) dentro del contexto de las obras derivadas de Rwanda Project, un monumental trabajo realizado desde 1994 que enuncia los desastres causados por la violencia inhumana en el genocidio de Ruanda. La intención es comprender los mecanismos retóricos usados por Jaar -mise-en-invisibilité- dirigidos a la conciencia visual del espectador a través de la ocultación total o parcial de la imagen, la narración secuencial y procedimientos escenográficos establecidos en instalaciones de gran formato o la evocación literaria.Item type: Ítem , The hispanic world at war and the global transformation of commerce: global merchants in Spanish America: business, networks and independence (1800-1830)(Universitat de Barcelona, 2023) Besseghini, Deborah ; Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderThis special issue investigates how in the times of war, political turmoil, and disruption of commercial practices during the Age of Revolutions two centuries ago, merchants appear as demiurges of a new order. This is part of a polycentric reading of epochal transformations that does not deny the primacy of politics and military power in establishing relations of force, but which underlines the complex negotiations at their base. The collection of essays looks at the profound global consequences of the fall of the Spanish American empire, particularly as they related to the decline of mercantilism and the reconfiguration of both Atlantic and inter-Pacific commerce. A crucial element in this transformation was the war economy, which had implications not only in Spanish America, but in the whole of the Hispanic world and beyond. Global merchants or businessmen ¿foreigners and Hispanic¿ strategically located in the Hispanic World, whose networks and affairs linked Europe, Asia and the Americas, worked within the vacuum created by the crisis of the Spanish monarchy in what was a fluid and foundational moment. The essays investigate how the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Independence against Spain accelerated the emergence of new actors, practices, rules and commercial circuits, by analyzing the personal and business networks that built, redefined and renegotiated the role of Hispanic America in the global economy. This prosopography of merchants thus shows trajectories through which, despite infinite difficulties, global and transregional merchants appear as one of the maieutic forces in the birth of the modern world.Item type: Ítem , The collapse of mercantilism: anglo-hispanic trans-Pacific ventures in Asia at the end of the Spanish empire (1815-30)(Universitat de Barcelona, 2023) Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderEarly modern connections between the Pacific shores of the Spanish Empire have been assessed in previous studies and yet, studies on the subsequent developments during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are scant. This particularly applies to the consequences of the commercial developments at the end of the Manila Galleon and the collapse of the Spanish Empire in America. Through the analysis of the professional networks of Francisco Xavier de Ezpeleta, and Juan Nepomuceno Machado, which stretched from Asia to Mexico at the time, this paper proposes some preliminary conclusions about trans-Pacific links. It focuses on the study of networks and connections, and builds upon archival sources - mostly from the Jardine Matheson Archive, in Cambridge. In the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, actors who made up Hispanic trading networks in what remained of the crumbling Spanish Empire, reorganised to benefit from opportunities as mercantilist limitations came to an end. In so doing, by the 1820s, Hispanic traders allied with the forebears of the British firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co., and controlled the resulting networks. This paper points to Hispanic trans-Pacific connections during the development of European private trade between East Asia and the Mexican Pacific. Ties between British and Hispanic merchants are key for the analysis of the opium trade and Western imperialism in East Asia, and the development of British commercial hegemony in Latin America in the nineteenth century.Item type: Ítem , Españoles en Cantón: los Diarios de Manuel de Agote, primer factor de la Real Compañía de Filipinas en China (1787-1796)(Gipuzkoako foru aldundia, 2012) Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderManuel de Agote y Bonechea, viajero y primer factor de la Real Compañía de Filipinas en Cantón entre 1787 y 1796, dejó escritas sus impresiones en una serie de diarios que se conservan en el Untzi Museoa-Museo Naval de San Sebastián. En el presente artículo analizamos su labor al frente de la factoría partiendo de la información que se desprende de sus Diarios, y en los que se pueden ver las actividades de la Compañía en China, sus relaciones con los comerciantes chinos y los sobrecargos de las compañías privilegiadas, además de la realidad del comercio e imperialismo europeos en China a finales del siglo XVIII, así como del papel de la Compañía en la agenda política e imperial de la monarquía borbónica.Item type: Ítem , Una presencia no tan singular: españoles en la economía del opio en Asia oriental (1815-1843)(Universitat Jaume I, 2015) Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderItem type: Ítem , Presentación: Encuentros e intercambios euroasiáticos en el Pacífico(Universitat Jaume I, 2015) Pérez Lecha, Manuel; Martínez Taberner, Guillermo; Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderItem type: Ítem , Ressenya: Pablo ORTEGA-DEL-CERRO: La Escuadra de Asia. Guerra, comercio e información en el ocaso de la primera edad global (1795-1803), Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2023, 211 pp., ISBN 978-84-00-11153-3(Centro de estudios universitarios de historia militar, 2024) Permanyer Ugartemendia, AnderReseña de Pablo ORTEGA-DEL-CERRO: La Escuadra de Asia. Guerra, comercio e información en el ocaso de la primera edad global (1795-1803), Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2023, 211 pp., ISBN 978-84-00-11153-3.Item type: Ítem , Le XVIIIe siècle et les décrets de Nueva Planta: accommodement et dissidence(Sorbonne Université, 2020) Albareda i Salvadó, JoaquimAprès la défaite catalane de 1714, à mesure que le temps passait, grâce à la croissance économique et à la participation grandissante sur le marché espagnol et latinoaméricain, les Catalans s'accommodèrent au nouveau régime bourbonien. Toutefois, comment l'image d'une Catalogne prospère dont parlent immanquablement les voyageurs étrangers durant le XVIIIe siècle et que l'historien Pierre Vilar a magnifiquement évoquée s'inscrit-elle dans ce récit d'une lourde répression des Bourbons - Malgré cela, les exemples de dissidence politique - conjointement à la méfiance chronique de la part des autorités bourboniennes - ne cessèrent pas au fil du siècle. Ainsi, on peut conclure que vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle perdurera le souvenir des libertés catalanes et de l'organisation spécifique de la res publica, nullement conforme aux dictats de l'absolutisme bourbonien.Item type: Ítem , Representación y participación política en Cataluña en torno a 1700(University of California, 2021) Albareda i Salvadó, JoaquimEn la segunda mitad del siglo XVII cuajaron en Cataluña largos procesos de transformación y económica y de cambio social. Nuevos y dinámicos grupos impulsaron una puesta al día del constitucionalismo catalán en las Cortes de 1701-1702, presididas por Felipe V de Borbón, y más todavía en las de 1705-1706, presididas por Carlos III el Archiduque. A diferencia de lo que sucedía en otros territorios de la Corona de Aragón y de Europa, en Cataluña se ampliaban y consolidaban la representación y la participación política, en Cortes y en otras instituciones, y se consagraban mecanismos de defensa de los derechos de toda la sociedad. La victoria borbónica en la Guerra de Sucesión acabó drásticamente con estas estructuras de corte republicanista. Palabras clave: Representación, participación, Cataluña, siglo XVIII, constitucionalismo Long-term processes of social and economic transformation crystallized in the second half of the Seventeenth century. Dynamic merchants merged with traditional elites and promoted an updating of Catalan constitutionalism both in the 1701-1702 parliament, called by Philippe V, and in the 1705-1706 one, led by archduke Charles III. While in several European countries representative institutions and rule of law were fading under royal absolutism, they were being strengthened in Catalonia. Once the Bourbon dynasty won the War of Succession to the Spanish throne, all structures implying active political participation of clergy, nobility and commoners were abolished. Keywords: Representation, participation, Catalonia, 18th century, constitutionalism.Item type: Ítem , ¿Amigos o enemigos? España y Francia: intereses dinásticos e intereses nacionales (siglo XVIII): comercio, negocios y contratación(Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, 2024) Albareda i Salvadó, Joaquim; Castellà i Pujols, Maria Betlem; Solbes Ferri, Sergio; Torres Sánchez, RafaelItem type: Ítem , "In public space, the naked body is still explosive:" how photographer Spencer Tunick won and lost the fight to work on New York's streets(Università di Verona, 2015) El-Mecky, NausikaäThis article examines renowned yet controversial American photographer Spencer Tunick, whose work has led to numerous arrests, a high profile court-case and finally, success abroad. Spencer Tunick's photographic works, which he calls installations, have brought him great renown, but his work was and continues to be hazardous, exposing the unstable rules about art and nudity in public space. Masses of naked bodies populate his works, standing up, lying down, painted blue, lifted up, holding hands, in public spaces all over the world. Tunick is not interested in sexualised imagery: the boundaries he wants to push against are political. Ironically, it was his high-profile court-case win in 2000 to photograph a group of nude persons outdoors in New York that led to increased censorship, and 'more fortuitously' to international success. Using archival records, interviews (by the author) with Tunick and reflections on the interactions between photography, the law, morality and public space, this article delves into the New York quality of Tunick's work, which is both timelessly aesthetic and highly topical and political.Item type: Ítem , A contract law approach to private censorship of art on social media platforms(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2024) Melian Perez, Gabriel Ernesto; El-Mecky, NausikaäThe censorship of artists on social media impacts their freedom of expression and their ability to monetize and engage with their audiences. Furthermore, this fosters a process of cultural standard-ization. Several legal arguments have been raised against art censorship in social media platforms, mainly based on public law, however, they are not effective in all jurisdictions, as demonstrated by U.S. case law. The purpose of this paper is to shift the spotlight and provide solutions from a private law perspective, specifically from contract law. The main argument here is that courts should abandon their traditional bilateral/vertical approach and embrace a more nuanced one that better reflects the complexity of the relationships taking place in social media. This would give those affected access to concrete contractual remedies and allow for greater control over the content moderation process.Item type: Ítem , Review of Kaveh Yazdani, India, modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat, 17th-19th c.(Indiana University Press, 2018) Segura-Garcia, TeresaItem type: Ítem , Review of Claude Markowitz, India and the world: a history of connections, c. 1750-2000(Viella srl, 2024) Segura-Garcia, TeresaClaude Markovits' India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 is a compelling, wide-ranging examination of India's global interactions over two centuries and a half. Across seven sweeping thematic chapters, Markovits explores India's past through its role in the three-fold global exchange of things (commodities, manufactured goods, cultural productions), people (voluntary migration, indentured labour, military conscription), and ideas (religion, political ideologies, the reception of historical events). The author's aim is to explore Indian history through a broader, connected history framework, drawing on methodologies most notably pioneered by Sanjay Subrahmanyam.1 The book positions India as an active participant in transoceanic networks sustained through multidirectional connections. As Markovits demonstrates, India influenced and was influenced by the world in a dynamic and reciprocal, if sometimes uneven, manner. The book's opening chronology provides an excellent indication of what is to come, in terms of the monograph's ambitious thematic scope. The chronology features standard political and military milestones, ranging from the Carnatic Wars of 1746-53 to the Kargil conflict of 1999. It also pinpoints, however, cultural moments, from the publication of William Jone's English translation of Kalidasa's play Shakuntala in 1789 to the box-office success of the Tamil masala film Muthu in Japan in 1998. The masterful balance between economic, political, social, and cultural history underscores the breadth of Markovits's scholarship, which enables him to situate India not just within the frameworks created by European colonialism but also in global landscapes. This broader scope breaks from the more conventional focus on India's imperial ties, demonstrating that India's global reach extended well beyond them. Markovits takes the reader on a tour from Japan, where the Sindwork merchants of Sindh's Hyderabad sold Japonaiserie trinkets to affluent North American customers in search of exotica, to Benin, where vodún followers incorporated images of Hindu gods imported by Indian traders into their religious practices. It is precisely in charting India's interactions with the non-imperial and the non-European - particularly the rest of Asia, Africa, and the Americas - that the book is most gripping and successful.Item type: Ítem , Review of Razak Khan, minority pasts: locality, emotions, and belonging in princely Rampur(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2025) Segura-Garcia, TeresaThis review evaluates Razak Khan's Minority Pasts, a history of the princely state of Rampur. Khan's monograph argues for the centrality of 'locality' in shaping Muslim identity, emotion, and politics from the colonial era to the postcolonial present. Drawing on multilingual archives and the history of emotions, the book traces how Rampuri rulers and subjects negotiated belonging through concepts like 'poetic sovereignty' and an affective sense of place known as 'Rampuriyat'. The review assesses the book as a methodologically innovative and significant contribution that counters homogenizing narratives, highlighting its interdisciplinary value for scholars of South Asia.Item type: Ítem , Anti-social behaviour in the square: differentiation mechanisms among non-native groups in a peripheral neighbourhood of Barcelona(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Mata Codesal, DianaThis paper analyses differentiation processes between non-native groups in a stigmatized peripheral neighbourhood of Barcelona. Its more established dwellers – internal migrants from the South of Spain – have set in place differentiation processes between them and the more recently arrived international migrants. To substantivize differentiation processes, in a context where race has been largely silent, they appropriate the “civic terminology” that has become popular in the city in the last decade. In the global context of hyper-regulation and increasing privatization of urban public spaces, this group’s discursive strategies, based on the civic/non-civic divide, aim to ensure control over accessible open public space, a resource that is locally scarce. Using the ethnographic example of the tensions around “proper behaviour” in the area’s main square, the article explores processes of identification and differentiation in a context where autochthony cannot be unproblematically called upon.Item type: Ítem , Is it simpler to leave than to stay put? Desired immobility in a Mexican village(Wiley, 2018) Mata Codesal, Diana