Banca de DEFESA: Nathaly Jose Mancilla Órdenes

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STUDENT : Nathaly Jose Mancilla Órdenes
DATE: 31/05/2023
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/69718366492
TITLE:

"The Crown as an Apprentice: ‘policey’, colonial administration and new meanings of law in the Diamond District (1771-1808)".

KEY WORDS:

"Policey, police, colonial law, diamond district, Royal Extraction".

PAGES: 212
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

This thesis focuses on the transformation of Law that took place within the Diamond District, situated in the region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, during 1771-1808. In 1771, the Portuguese Crown abandoned the contractors’ system for the extraction of diamonds, establishing a special institution to be responsible for this activity, the Real Extração dos diamantes. This top-down change in the administrative design of its colonial institutions had the purpose to rationalize and increase control of their productivity. However, the implementation of the new regime faced a series of obstacles, mainly related to conflicts of jurisdiction with local authorities. By picking this example, I argue that it is possible to observe the relevance of colonial institutions for the emergence of modern law during early modernity. The reason for that is because, even with the efforts of centralization, the royal institution was still permeable to local circumstances, not only disputing and denying normative expectations of the locals, but simultaneously partially incorporating them. The complex communicative process triggered by the creation of this institution paved the way to new concepts of law.

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