Forms of charisma: the dominated voice in judicial sources, 1875-1890

Abstract

The article investigates the recorded voices of those who confronted the elites of their community with the purpose of analyzing the opinions that circulated among the weak or fed their political language. The words of subordinate groups have gained greater interest and much more complex meanings due to the impact on the historiography of the work of James C. Scott. Forms of charisma and crowd action reveal a hidden discourse in subordination and shed light on the less visible face of power relations. The funds of the Territorial Court of Albacete during the last decades of the 19th century have provided the main documentary source for this work.