Project description
Unveiling women’s role in colonial justice
In the colonial contexts of the Río de la Plata, women’s roles in justice systems are poorly understood, particularly in the realm of moral crime lawsuits. These gaps obscure how women navigated and influenced legal norms. Understanding these interactions is crucial for recognising the agency and resistance of women in these periods. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the WOMEN JUSTICE project investigates women’s uses of justice across Spanish and Portuguese Americas. It aims to untangle trials by examining lawsuits, uncovering women’s strategies, shared knowledge, and resistance methods. By focusing on secular and ecclesiastical courts from Paranaguá to Buenos Aires, this research will blend history, law, and criminology.
Objective
The project will investigate the uses of justice by women in the colonial contexts of the Río de la Plata, between Spanish and Portuguese Americas through lawsuits of moral crimes. The ultimate aim is to untangle the trials by detecting features both in and beyond the descriptions registered in the lawsuits, seeking to discover which were the uses of justice by women, what were their agencies to the different types of crimes, which knowledge they had, shared and manipulated, which behaviors reveal ways of resistance, and which were the strategies they developed to achieve their interests through justice institutions. The focus is on women's agencies and the knowledge of normativity they carried and shared, addressing the norms that circulated across and were produced by interpersonal conflicts prosecuted by the secular and ecclesiastic courts. It will be possible to access the processes of retro-influences between different sorts of knowledge and how they were used by women in a colonial frontier space. The research will produce new empirical knowledge regarding women and justice by developing an interdisciplinary approach between History, Law and Criminology: it will further develop the cut-crossing bias from Women’s History, Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist Criminology. The concept of knowledge of normativity will be used in accordance with Thomas Duve’s perspective, the analysis of the lawsuits will be guided by the method of the indiciary paradigm (Ginzburg) and the nuances of double fragmentation (Farge). The sources that will be analyzed are from both the secular and ecclesiastical courts from the platina region in the 17th and 18th centuries: from the village of Paranaguá (Brazil) and the city of Asunción (Paraguay) until the villages of Colony of Sacramento and Montevideo (Uruguay), encompassing Santa Fe, Chaco, Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, and part of the Buenos Aires region (Agentina).
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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