La ciudad en acción: Resistencias, (Re)significaciones del orden y Cultura Política en la Monarquía Hispánica

The project La ciudad en acción: Resistencias, (Re)significaciones del orden y Cultura Política en la Monarquía Hispánica, part of the CULTURBAN axis (Culturas urbanas y resistencias en la Edad Moderna: actores y espacios) is led by Marina Torres Arce and Susana Truchuelo García, professors of Modern History at the University of Cantabria in Santander, and funded by  the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the ERDF ( MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ ERDF "Una manera de hacer Europa"). It has been running since September 2022 over a three-year period

Subproject 2, The city in action: resistances, (re)significations of order and political culture in the modern era, is based on the examination of resistances and processes of order reconduction from the 16th to the 19th century as means of expressing the demands, opinions, values and practices that shaped the political culture of the common people, particularly the Hispanic monarchy and its Atlantic and Asian projections. From a bottom-up approach, with a gender perspective and cross-border and comparative perspectives, the research is organized around 1) People in Action, Conflict and Resistance and 2) The City in the (Re)Meaning of Order, both structured around three foci of attention: firstly, actors - individual and collective - and their capacity and opportunity for political participation (agency) to influence the configuration of the order that governs urban life; secondly, urban spaces, their social uses and meanings in contexts of conflict and recomposition of order; and thirdly, the redefinition through conflict and negotiation of order and political cultures in an ongoing process of tension and adaptation.