The extreme southern origins of globality: Circumnavigation, habitability, and geopolitics

dc.creatorOnetto Pavez, Mauricio
dc.date2022
dc.date2022-10-04T21:36:38Z
dc.date2022-10-04T21:36:38Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-18T14:52:17Z
dc.date.available2022-10-18T14:52:17Z
dc.identifierJOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY,Vol.,,2022
dc.identifierhttps://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/4766
dc.identifier10.1017/S1740022822000225
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/4444041
dc.descriptionThis article analyses how the first circumnavigation of the world, from 1519 to 1522, introduced South America as a key space in the formation of the 'global', thus producing a historical point of inflection. We examine the commercial and political plans and networks that began to function as a result of this new connectivity, which turned the American continent into a major global axis. The analysis focuses on the way in which this voyage gave new prominence to an unexplored region of the world, namely the southernmost tip of America, thus changing the notion of habitability that had prevailed for centuries in Europe. These changes questioned the authority of 'ancient' Greek thinkers and strengthened a European historical narrative that appropriated the discovered territories and distinguished the extreme southern part of America from other southern regions, as symbolized through figures such as the Patagonian giants. I consider these changes based on evidence from Spanish sources.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
dc.sourceJOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY
dc.subjectGlobality
dc.subjectSouthern zone
dc.subjectStrait of Magellan
dc.subjectWorld passage
dc.subjectCircumnavigation
dc.subjectHabitability
dc.subjectGeopolitics
dc.titleThe extreme southern origins of globality: Circumnavigation, habitability, and geopolitics


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