Resignifying Social Mobilizations in the Crisis of the Iberian Empires, 1760s-1830s

Abstract

This article refocuses collective mobilizations on the crisis of the Ancien Régime in the metropolitan and colonial Iberian world. It starts from the transformations that have taken place in the conception of revolts or mutinies and revolutions. Then it goes on to define the mobilizations that marked the formation of self-government juntas as constituent rebellions arising from processes of polemization and deliberation on spheres of community life in the absence of a center of power, marking the passage to modern politics but not necessarily towardsindividual citizenship nor towards a scenario of structural continuities.