Empire and Human Rights: Colonization and Sovereignty in a global Iberian Empire (1580-1640)

Información del proyecto

EMPIREHURIGHTS

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 659425

DOI

10.3030/659425

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 27 Marzo 2015

Fecha de inicio 1 Agosto 2016

Fecha de finalización 31 Julio 2018

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 148 635,60

Aportación de la UE

€ 148 635,60

Coordinado por

UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA
Portugal

Objetivo

This project is about human rights in history. The concept and doctrine of human rights as such are a recent creation, only formulated and codified after World War II. The main purpose of this project is to seek early manifestations and perceptions of human rights, in the way they came into existence in the political and juridical culture of early modern Europe. The best way is to take as reference the process of construction of European overseas empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Because of its very nature, several issues were inherent to this process that are today considered in the scope of human rights, such as indigenous rights, slavery, religious differences and violence. How did European nations, which were themselves involved in a turmoil of conflicts about their own cultural and religious identity, dealt with these problems? How did governments, decision-makers, theologians, jurists, military, merchants and common people who settled overseas, thought and acted in this regard? And how did the peoples and rulers who watched the arrival of Europeans and suffered the violence of imperial and colonizing processes thought and acted? This research project is mostly focused on the period 1580-1640, when Portugal and Spain became united under the Catholic Monarchy, thus creating an Iberian empire of an almost-global dimension. This allows the analysis of a variety of cultural and geopolitical contexts (Brazil, Mexico, Mina, Sri Lanka, the Persian Gulf, India and the Philippines). It also allows seeking the roots of human rights problems and conceptions outside the frame of reference (Northern and Protestant Europe) that has been mostly considered by this scholarship. On the other hand, by historicizing the concept of human right, we hope to bring some new and different insights to the interdisciplinary approach to this topic, in addition to the perspectives currently offered by international relations, political science and international law.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• humanidades › otras humanidades › biblioteconomía
• ciencias sociales › derecho › derechos humanos › violaciones de los derechos humanos › trata de seres humanos
• humanidades › historia y arqueología › historia › historia moderna
• ciencias sociales › derecho › Derecho internacional
• ciencias sociales › ciencias políticas › sistemas de gobierno

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Coordinador

UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 148 635,60
• Dirección: LARGO DOS COLEGIAIS 2 ; 7000 803 Evora ; Portugal
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 148 635,60