El sistema penitenciario colombiano. Fase III. La época de las reformas ilustradas en la Nueva Granada

Abstract

It is intended to develop an investigation into the punishment in the colonial administration in the New Kingdom of Granada during the period 1780-1810. There is a historiographical vacuum about the materiality of colonial punishment and its administrative, discursive and human implications. In this sense, the Foucauldian archaeological and genealogical methodologies are proposed to reveal how the adoption, implementation and transformation of punitive ideas and, especially, the appropriation of these by the colonial apparatus of the late eighteenth century to exercise its dominance and build obedient and passive subjects. This will make it possible to understand how speeches and punishment practices (galleys, public shame, capital punishment, deprivation of liberty, etc.) were related both to the administrative policy illustrated at the end of the colonial period and to the social order they intended to preserve. At the same time, given that the final years of the 18th century and the first years of the 19th century were of historical transition, the present investigation will allow us to make observations about the colonial punishment in general and about the republican punitive systems of the 19th century. Finally, it will be possible to understand an unknown and little-worked part of social history and its practical manifestations in relation to the modeling of individuals through corporal punishment.