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Rodrigo Perujo

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International Research Training Group 'Temporalities of Future in Latin America'

PhD Candidate

History

Project: "Popular political aspirations after Independence. Mexico City and the port of Veracruz (1821- 1835)"

Address
Boltzmannstr. 4
14195 Berlin

Education

Since 05/2022

PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’

08/2012 – 07/2014

Master in History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

08/2006 – 07/2010

Bachelor in History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Work Experience

Since 05/2022

Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’

10/2021 – 04/2022

Research stay at the LAI-FU, with the project "Popular Politics after Independence. Mexico City and Veracruz (1821-1835)"

08/2010 – 07/2021

History Teacher at Colegio Madrid A. C. (México)

08/2014 – 07/2015

Coordinator of the ‘Mexico City’s Oral History Project: Voz y memoria-Colonia Guerrero’ Secretary of Culture Mexico City

01/2010 – 08/2012

Student Assistant with Dra. Clara E. Lida, El Colegio de México.

Project: "Popular political aspirations after Independence. Mexico City and the port of Veracruz (1821- 1835)"


 Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke


The research aims to study the popular urban groups’ aspirations towards the future during the Mexican post-Independence era. It focuses on the cases of Mexico City and Veracruz: the capital city and the main Atlantic port, contact point with the world beyond the sea. This period has been traditionally characterized in terms of chaos and crisis, however, it is precisely the fragility of the political order which allows us to think about it as a time of unusual openings. The crisis of the traditional hierarchies also implied the appearance of new spaces of political intervention for the urban popular sectors: elections, civic rituals, riots, and caudillos' uprisings. They were also part of a rising public opinion that appealed to them through pamphlets, satirical pamphlets, and political claims, which, when read in public, transcended the boundaries of the literate world.

Although it is difficult to speak about a popular political project, it is possible to trace the subalterns' ideas and political imagination about the future; articulated around hopes of larger quotas of freedom and equality. To this end, I appeal to diverse sources, such as municipal archives, police reports, and urban order policies; justice records; stories, chronicles, travel writings, and diplomat records; as well as the world of the press in newspapers and pamphlets.

Article

Perujo de la Cruz, Rodrigo; Ortiz Meza, Octavio; (et. al): "Grana cochinilla, un viaje desde el Arte, la Historia y la Ciencia”, Memorias Congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa 2019, 561-566.

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