INVESTIGADORES
GARRIDO Santiago Manuel
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Socio-technical analysis of slave workforce-based production systems (Africa-America, between the XVI and XIX centuries). A theoretical-methodological proposal.
Autor/es:
6) HERNÁN THOMAS; MARTA GOLDBERG; SILVIA MALLO; ALFONSO BUCH; ALBERTO LALOUF; SANTIAGO GARRIDO Y GUILLERMO SANTOS
Lugar:
Vancouver
Reunión:
Simposio; 2006 Annual Meeting: Silence, Suffering and Survival; 2006
Institución organizadora:
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
Resumen:
The aim for this paper is to introduce an actually developing research project where the technology-slavery relationship is analyzed from a socio-technical perspective. To be focused again on that issue from this analytical viewpoint supposes the chance to identify new relationships, to re-build new processes, to generate new explanations. At the same time, the paper is a proposal for an theoretical-methodological approach that it had never be applied within the Latin-american countries, at least- on historical and social studies. In this sense, it can be read like an attempt to broadening the possible analytical approaches used for historical studies. Up today, many scholarly work had been addressed to the analysis of the slave trade between the XVI and XIX centuries and the production systems based on the slave labor force as well from economical, demographical as legal approaches. Particularly, in the socio-historical studies on slave economy, the sparse depicting of the specific technologies developed in that period are circunscribed to the different capture and transport technics, the tools and facilities used in the slave system, and the disciplinary methods. To carry ahead the research project, an analytical distinction is made into the slave-based production systems between: a) the processes of slave production; capture, transport, concentration and slave selling (from the capture inside Africa to the end market), and b) the processes of production based on slave workforce into plantations, haciendas, mining and urban jobs. In a first stage the research will be developed only about the slaves production processes.
