ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Creating Suspects. Security Politics and Colonial Rule in the Spanish Empire
SUSPICIO proposes an entirely new hypothesis in the field of modern history as well as in Hispanic studies: that security became a key concept of governance in the late Spanish Empire (ca.1770–1820). This phenomenon began in the last quarter of 18th century when Spain felt the threat of losing its American colonies through external events that questioned the colonial rule, including US independ-ence and the influence of the French revolution. The perception of threat and the Spanish government’s distrust of their own population in America gave rise to extensive security regulations and measures in order to protect the colonial order. With my extensive expertise in both archive research and…
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