Abstract
Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books, including How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World (2001), Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (2006), and Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (2007). Cañizares-Esguerra is currently working on two book-length projects: Categories as Prisons, which explores how historiographical categories organize what questions about the past are permissible and therefore how archives and narratives are organized; and The Radical Spanish Empire, coauthored with Adrian Masters, which challenges the Anglo-American liberal notion that parliamentary democracy, humanitarianism, print culture, and the public sphere were the crucibles of modernity, arguing that sixteenth-century Spanish America witnessed massive popular participation in the creation of new laws and radical forms of antislavery and abolitionism, as well as the creation of vast archives of new social and natural knowledge and the rise of systematic skepticism and philosophical pragmatism in governance.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.27.03
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Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge; Bazile, Sophonie; Fernandez Cantero, Juan; and Linz, Jess
(2018)
"Categories as Archives: From Silence to Social Justice: An Interview with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra,"
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 27, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.27.03
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https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol27/iss1/6
