Periodic Reporting for period 2 - RESISTANCE (Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries)
Período documentado: 2020-06-01 hasta 2024-05-31
RESISTANCE aimed at providing an understanding of how ordinary and subaltern people from societies in the past challenged the established order. Covering the period from the sixteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century, and the Iberian Peninsula and the territories across the globe under Portuguese and Spanish colonial rule, the project was focused on groups and individuals that were discriminated due to their status, religion, gender, race, or colonial condition (for example, peasants, slaves, colonial natives, Jews, Muslims, and women, among others). The focus was on the way in which these individuals and groups responded to inequality, sought greater social justice, and pursued alternative political projects.
Another purpose of RESISTANCE was to take advantage of the territorial configuration of the former Iberian empires to build a transnational research and training network. Through participation in this network, scholars from a variety of cultural backgrounds engage in ground-breaking research and benefit from the transfer of knowledge between different academic communities.
Finally, RESISTANCE also aimed at carrying out an ambitious range of outreach activities with a view to communicate the scientific outputs outside the academic sphere. Extensive use of digital and multimedia means was put in place to achieve this goal.
RESISTANCE drew and followed a common research agenda. Its purpose was to circumscribe its scientific objectives, as well as its historiographical, theoretical, and methodological questions, in a way that facilitated the dialogue among its multi-institutional, multi-international, multi-generational, and multi-interdisciplinary team. It has proven to be of paramount importance for the coherence and convergence of the many activities carried out.
Another purpose of RESISTANCE was to take advantage of the territorial configuration of the former Iberian empires to build a transnational research and training network. Through participation in this network, scholars from a variety of cultural backgrounds engage in ground-breaking research and benefit from the transfer of knowledge between different academic communities.
Finally, RESISTANCE also aimed at carrying out an ambitious range of outreach activities with a view to communicate the scientific outputs outside the academic sphere. Extensive use of digital and multimedia means was put in place to achieve this goal.
RESISTANCE drew and followed a common research agenda. Its purpose was to circumscribe its scientific objectives, as well as its historiographical, theoretical, and methodological questions, in a way that facilitated the dialogue among its multi-institutional, multi-international, multi-generational, and multi-interdisciplinary team. It has proven to be of paramount importance for the coherence and convergence of the many activities carried out.
Scientific Deliverables
• RESISTANCE has carried out eight Symposia and two Workshops.
• Talks in permanent seminars and Training courses were held at the different partners institutions and were an opportunity to communicate diverse traditions and recent historiographical debates to History students.
• Publications: we have largely exceeded the number of publications (books, chapters, journal articles) foreseen in the Grant Agreement, as can be checked in RESISTANCE's website (www.resistance.uevora.pt). Specifically, the three books that were planned in relation to the three thematic work packages, are all well under way and will certainly be published until December 2025.
• Digital Mapping of Rebellions in the Early Modern Iberian World (https://mappingrebellions.com/)(se abrirá en una nueva ventana): it consists of a digital map and its supporting database, is already online, and will continue to be fed in the next two years.
• Lexicon of Resistance in the Iberian Empires (https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/lexicon/)(se abrirá en una nueva ventana): it is already online, making available the vocabulary linked to the manifestations of resistance in the Iberian empires and intends to show how this vocabulary evolved between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Communication Deliverables:
• RESISTANCE’s Web Portal: working since March 2019
• Interviews: 10 (available in the project's website and YouTube channel): https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/interviews/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana); https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectoRESISTANCE(se abrirá en una nueva ventana).
• Short videos: 5 (available in the project's website and YouTube channel): https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/school_videos/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana); https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectoRESISTANCE(se abrirá en una nueva ventana).
• Poster Exhibition: 2 (available in the project's website: https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/posters/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)).
• 1 e-Book: Religion and Women. Resistance in the Iberian Empires (available in the project's website: https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/teaching_resources/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana))
• Teaching Resources: 2 Teacher's Handbooks on Enslaved Africans in the Iberian Empires and on Indigenous Resistance in Iberian America (available in the project's website: https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/teaching_resources/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana))
• Ameríndia. Four Amerindian film screenings.
• Social Networks: We have created a RESISTANCE’s Youtube Chanel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCApIrzJn6DtNSYi5hCt20ag(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)) and a RESISTANCE’s X account (https:// twitter.com/R_esiste). The YouTube channel is used to post all multimedia outputs of the project and our Twitter account is used to call the attention to cultural activities or events related to resistance that are taking place all around the world.
• Social Media. Several interviews and presentations of the project were given to different media (newspapers, magazines, radio shows, and so on). Although they were not mentioned in the RESISTANCE’s proposal, they are the natural outcome of the promise made to communicate RESISTANCE’s ongoing research.
• RESISTANCE has carried out eight Symposia and two Workshops.
• Talks in permanent seminars and Training courses were held at the different partners institutions and were an opportunity to communicate diverse traditions and recent historiographical debates to History students.
• Publications: we have largely exceeded the number of publications (books, chapters, journal articles) foreseen in the Grant Agreement, as can be checked in RESISTANCE's website (www.resistance.uevora.pt). Specifically, the three books that were planned in relation to the three thematic work packages, are all well under way and will certainly be published until December 2025.
• Digital Mapping of Rebellions in the Early Modern Iberian World (https://mappingrebellions.com/)(se abrirá en una nueva ventana): it consists of a digital map and its supporting database, is already online, and will continue to be fed in the next two years.
• Lexicon of Resistance in the Iberian Empires (https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/lexicon/)(se abrirá en una nueva ventana): it is already online, making available the vocabulary linked to the manifestations of resistance in the Iberian empires and intends to show how this vocabulary evolved between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Communication Deliverables:
• RESISTANCE’s Web Portal: working since March 2019
• Interviews: 10 (available in the project's website and YouTube channel): https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/interviews/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana); https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectoRESISTANCE(se abrirá en una nueva ventana).
• Short videos: 5 (available in the project's website and YouTube channel): https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/school_videos/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana); https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectoRESISTANCE(se abrirá en una nueva ventana).
• Poster Exhibition: 2 (available in the project's website: https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/posters/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)).
• 1 e-Book: Religion and Women. Resistance in the Iberian Empires (available in the project's website: https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/teaching_resources/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana))
• Teaching Resources: 2 Teacher's Handbooks on Enslaved Africans in the Iberian Empires and on Indigenous Resistance in Iberian America (available in the project's website: https://www.resistance.uevora.pt/teaching_resources/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana))
• Ameríndia. Four Amerindian film screenings.
• Social Networks: We have created a RESISTANCE’s Youtube Chanel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCApIrzJn6DtNSYi5hCt20ag(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)) and a RESISTANCE’s X account (https:// twitter.com/R_esiste). The YouTube channel is used to post all multimedia outputs of the project and our Twitter account is used to call the attention to cultural activities or events related to resistance that are taking place all around the world.
• Social Media. Several interviews and presentations of the project were given to different media (newspapers, magazines, radio shows, and so on). Although they were not mentioned in the RESISTANCE’s proposal, they are the natural outcome of the promise made to communicate RESISTANCE’s ongoing research.
- Comparisons between different forms of resistance have showed us that there were political decisions put in place by the metropolis centres that impacted both the European territories and the colonial ones. Moreover, most of these decisions arouse resistances in both European and Colonial dominions of the former Iberian Empires.
- Nevertheless, the specific contexts and the cultures of the colonial parts of the Iberian Empires demand a close look to highlight the particularities of each culture’s response.
- The “interiorization of the metropolis” carried out during the 18th century and early XIX century strengthen Iberian political responses and reinforced its means of control and repression over overseas subjects.
- The daily forms of resistance occurred all over the Empires and their efficacy was great, namely among indigenous and enslaved populations. They served both the resistance to colonization and the miscegenation(s) of the original cultures of those peoples.
- Negotiation with the authorities (either through petitions or the institutional framework) was a tool widely used by all social categories and helped to ease communication with the political centres thus contributing to social change.
Impact
1. The communication deliverables are designed to reach different audiences, from 10 to 15 years old students to college students and educated adults. They intend to raise awareness to the importance of resistance processes, as well as to the complicated epistemological and theoretical issues related to resistance studies.
2. Seminars, talks, and lectures delivered by secondees reach beneficiary and partner institutions, but also institutions that are part of RESISTANCE’s growing network while scientific peer-reviewed publications with national and international impact reach the academic community.
3. Outreach activities such as the participation in the production of exhibitions, the participation in cinema cycles, classes and presentations reach audiences other than the academic, such as school audiences, and publications in non-academic media.
4. To boost the societal impact and get extra synergies, RESISTANCE seeks partnerships among different types of institutions. They include newspapers, the House of Latin America in Portugal, associations of History teachers, collaborations with several ongoing academic digital projects and the participation in the European Researchers' Night in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
- Nevertheless, the specific contexts and the cultures of the colonial parts of the Iberian Empires demand a close look to highlight the particularities of each culture’s response.
- The “interiorization of the metropolis” carried out during the 18th century and early XIX century strengthen Iberian political responses and reinforced its means of control and repression over overseas subjects.
- The daily forms of resistance occurred all over the Empires and their efficacy was great, namely among indigenous and enslaved populations. They served both the resistance to colonization and the miscegenation(s) of the original cultures of those peoples.
- Negotiation with the authorities (either through petitions or the institutional framework) was a tool widely used by all social categories and helped to ease communication with the political centres thus contributing to social change.
Impact
1. The communication deliverables are designed to reach different audiences, from 10 to 15 years old students to college students and educated adults. They intend to raise awareness to the importance of resistance processes, as well as to the complicated epistemological and theoretical issues related to resistance studies.
2. Seminars, talks, and lectures delivered by secondees reach beneficiary and partner institutions, but also institutions that are part of RESISTANCE’s growing network while scientific peer-reviewed publications with national and international impact reach the academic community.
3. Outreach activities such as the participation in the production of exhibitions, the participation in cinema cycles, classes and presentations reach audiences other than the academic, such as school audiences, and publications in non-academic media.
4. To boost the societal impact and get extra synergies, RESISTANCE seeks partnerships among different types of institutions. They include newspapers, the House of Latin America in Portugal, associations of History teachers, collaborations with several ongoing academic digital projects and the participation in the European Researchers' Night in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.