"LAS PROEZAS DE LA CIUDAD Y SU ILUSTRE AYUNTAMIENTO": Simbolismo político y política urbana en Charcas a fines del siglo XVIII. (Spanish).

"The Exploits of the City and Its Illustrious City Council": Political Symbolism and Urban Politics in Charcas at the End of the 18th Century. (English)

CITY councils; MUNICIPAL government; CITIES & towns; RUMOR; BOLIVIAN history, 1825-; CHARCAS (Bolivia)

SUCRE (Bolivia); BOLIVIA

This study examines a series of events that took place in La Plata, seat of the Audience of Charcas, in 1871 following the spread of rumors regarding an alleged popular uprising. The events reflect the incipient formation of an urban political culture opposed to the established order but rooted in plural, secular ideological traditions. The collective claims of neighboring patricians and plebeians, the initiatives of the city council, and a series of public ceremonies reveal both important changes in the way relations between urban groups were conceived and vigorous criticisms of the principles of Bourbon absolutism. We shall see the emergence of strong feelings of antagonism between the neighbors and the peninsular sectors, ways of appealing to the people that revealed the sudden relevance of the local population's opinions, and the emergence of the city as a subject of history and a collective political actor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El estudio examina un conjunto de eventos ocurridos en La Plata, sede de la audiencia de Charcas, en 1781 a raíz de la difusión de rumores acerca de una presunta revuelta popular. En ellos podemos apreciar la incipiente conformación de una cultura política urbana que, aunque enraizada en tradiciones ideológicas pluriseculares, se erigió en abierta contraposición al orden vigente. Los alegatos colectivos de los vecinos patricios y plebeyos, las iniciativas del ayuntamiento y una serie de ceremonias públicas revelan significativas mutaciones en los modos de concebir las relaciones de los grupos urbanos, así como vigorosos cuestionamientos a los principios del absolutismo borbónico. Veremos aflorar marcados sentimientos de antagonismo entre los vecinos y los sectores peninsulares, formas de interpelación al "pueblo" que expusieron la repentina relevancia adquirida por las opiniones de la población local y la construcción de la ciudad como sujeto de la historia y actor político colectivo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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