Social practices of representation: pronunciamientos in Mexico at the beginning of republican life

IF 0.6 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Silke Hensel
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ABSTRACT In Mexico, as in all of Spanish America, independence from Spain was followed by a period of political instability. This instability was related, in particular, to the need to find new forms of and procedures for political decision-making and ways to create new political identities given the rise of new concepts such as national sovereignty, representation and the general will in the era of Atlantic Revolutions. This article sheds light on pronunciamientos as a form of representation which became prominent in Mexico. Some pronunciamientos were outright rebellions but they were more often a ritualized practice used by many social actors to express their will in political conflicts. Along with elections, they took on a mediating function between the government and representative bodies and the citizenry. Pronunciamientos changed the one-directional relationship between ruler and ruled that had been common during the colonial period. Communication between the local, regional and national levels intensified considerably and printed public spaces merged with oral spaces. The importance of pronunciamientos lay not only in their direct influence on political decisions but also in their symbolic function. The article shows how surprisingly fast these elements of pronunciamientos came to life in 1823, a decisive year for the Mexican polity.
代表的社会实践:共和生活初期墨西哥的发音
与所有西属美洲国家一样,墨西哥从西班牙独立后经历了一段政治动荡时期。这种不稳定尤其与需要寻找政治决策的新形式和新程序以及创造新的政治身份的方法有关,因为在大西洋革命时代出现了诸如国家主权、代表权和公意等新概念。这篇文章阐明了发音作为一种表现形式在墨西哥变得突出。一些宣言是彻底的反叛,但它们更多的是一种仪式化的做法,被许多社会行动者用来表达他们在政治冲突中的意愿。除了选举,他们还承担了政府与代表机构和公民之间的调解职能。公告改变了殖民时期普遍存在的统治者与被统治者之间的单向关系。地方、区域和国家之间的交流大大加强,印刷公共空间与口头空间融合。公告的重要性不仅在于其对政治决策的直接影响,还在于其象征功能。这篇文章展示了这些发音元素在1823年——对墨西哥政体具有决定性意义的一年——出现的速度是多么惊人。
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Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
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