DR. RAQUEL GIL MONTERO
Fellow
Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht"
Raum 7007
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster
T: +49 251 83-20049
raquelgilmontero@conicet.gov.ar

• VITA

  Senior Forscherin bei CONICET (Nationaler Rat für Wissenschaft und Technologie). Direktorin von Población & Sociedad (Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften). Assoziierte Forscherin des Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila). Internationale Zusammenarbeit: Teilnahme am Programm Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) und Global Collaboratory on the History of Labor Relations 1500-2000 (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam). Ehemalige Vizepräsidentin und Präsidentin des Nationalen Historikerverbands (Argentinien, 2017-2021). Frühere Forschungsstipendien der Alexander von Humboldt und John Guggenheim Stiftung, der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, des Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre Conviavility-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila), des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, von María Elena Cassiet (John Carter Brown Library), der Gerda Henkel Stiftung, der National Geographic Foundation, der Fundación Bilbao Viscaya, der Fundación Carolina, der Fundación Antorchas, des CONICET und der Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica. Hauptforschungsgebiete: Arbeitsbeziehungen, indigene Bevölkerung, Bergbau, Sozialgeschichte der Anden (16. bis 19. Jahrhundert).

• Forschungsprojekt

  Arbeiten unter kolonialer Herrschaft. Rechtliche Einheit und Pluralismus in Bolivien im siebzehnten Jahrhundert

  My research centers on labor relations in seventeenth-century Charcas (present-day Bolivia), a transitional period during Spanish colonial rule (early 1530s until 1825). Within this general frame, I am interested in concrete mechanisms of coercion, labor recruitment and tribute payment, all issues related to colonial obligations that were imposed to indigenous people based on the notion of vassalage. I concentrate on the Seventeenth Century, a period of intense migration and reorganization of the colonial society, and on indigenous population, the principal labor force. Within the framework of a long-term project based on a colonial inspection ordered by the Viceroy of Peru Duke of La Palata (1681-1689), I have until now worked on the most relevant aspects of the practices I have found in labor relations, addressed in a general way the legal framework regulating such practices, and collected information about different norms that coexisted by that time. The research carried out to date suggests that during the Seventeenth Century the gap between practices and legal regulations became more pronounced. For the stay in Münster I propose, then, to reconstruct the web of the different regulatory frameworks that coexisted at that time and its evolution. Or, in other words, to approach more carefully the legal polyphony (and its variations) that was operating in that period.
   

• Publikationen (Auswahl)

  Gil Montero, Raquel/Salinas, María Laura (Hrsg.): Visitas coloniales en diálogo: Tributación, servicios y prestaciones laborales en la Audiencia de Charcas durante el siglo XVII tardío. Resistencia 2023.

  Gil Montero, Raquel/Oliveto Guillermina: La creación —fallida— de un mundo fiscal. Charcas (actual Bolivia) 1683–1689”, in: Colonial Latin American Review 31 (2022), 479-503.

  Gil Montero, Raqueland/Albiez-Wieck, Sarah: Putting Tribute into Perspective. Negotiating Colonial Obligations in Seventeenth Century Peru, in: Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 5 (2020), 57-86.

  Gil Montero, Raquel/Tereygeol, Florian: Ore dressing technics in the Andes during the Seventeenth Century: The case of San Antonio del Nuevo Mundo (Lípez, present-day Bolivia), in: International Journal of Historical Archaeology 25 (2020), 65-91.

  Gil Montero, Raquel: Regional Impact of Mining Activity During Colonial Times in the Highlands of Southern Bolivia, in: International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21 (2017), 280-294.

  Gil Montero, Raquel: Free and Unfree Labour in the Colonial Andes in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, in:International Review of Social History 56 (2011), 297-318.