From 2 to 6 September, 2024, the 20th edition of the Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA) Conference took place in Naples, hosted by the Universita di Napoli L’Orientale.
On September 4th, Alina Rodríguez Sánchez, PhD candidate of the IberLAND project, presented her paper ‘Categorías y normativas de la extracción de materiales en la Nueva España, 1550-1650’ within the panel called ‘Extractivismo latinoamericano: entre el desarrollo económico, las resistencias y la creación de nuevos mundos (siglo XVI-XXI)’ organized by Nino Vallen (Radbound University) and Adrián Lerner Padrón (Cambridge University). Alina’s presentation aimed at describing the categories in which actors thought about their relation to one another and, in turn, to the material world, and how that influenced the praxis of extraction of materials in the early period of colonization in the New World.
The panel’s presentations covered topics dealing with a variety of regions in Latin America, as well as several centuries, which allowed a discussion on how these categories have enormously changed, and how necessary is to carefully calibrate our methodological tools to understand the economic and social implications of material extraction throughout Latin American history.
The full programme of the event is available here.
