Abstract

BOHORQUEZ, J.. Microglobal History: Agency, Society and Poverty of Post-structural Cultural History. hist.crit. [online]. 2018, n.69, pp.79-98. ISSN 0121-1617.  https://doi.org/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.

Keywords : Microhistory; global history; agency; post-structuralism.

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