Microglobal history: agencia, sociedad y pobreza de la historia cultural postestructural

• Main Author: J. Bohorquez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2018-07-01
• Series: Historia Crítica
• Subjects: Author: Microhistory; global history; agency; post-structuralism
• Online Access: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/histcrit69.2018.05

The present article discusses the configuration of the recent tendency known as microglobal history. It analyzes the way the microhistorical scale has become a methodological option to solve some problems of global history. Unlike the tendencies associated with post-structural studies, which use and abuse cultural aspects like race, gender, ethnic group, or figure of subordinates, the introduction of the subject in a translocal scale is presented as an alternative to analyze great questions and to escape again from history as a narrative. The article proposes that agency must not simply be thought as cultural reasons. Instead the subject must be studied on a global scale, where different translocal processes impact capabilities to decide and act.