Dr Paulo Drinot
Contact details
History
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Telephone: 44-161 275 3249
Fax: 44- 161 275 3256
Email: paulo.drinot@manchester.ac.uk
Room: Humanities Lime Grove N 2.14
Profile
I joined the history department in July 2005, having previously been a lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds (2004-2005) and Junior Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Oxford (2002-2004). I have a BSc (Econ) in Economic History from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil in Latin American Studies and a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford.
Research
At present, I am engaged in three research projects:
'A regional history of Ayacucho, Peru, 1879-1969', is conceived as a pre-history of the decade and a half of violence that left 70,000 people dead in the 1980s and 1990s. Using primary education and military conscription as windows onto the articulation of power relations, conditioned by gender, ethnic and class conflict, between the central state and local and regional actors, this research aims to contribute to a literature that seeks to explain the persistence of violence, poverty and poor governance in Latin America.
'Prostitution in Lima, 1850-1950' investigates the history of prostitution in Lima, the spatial politics of the creation of a red-light district in the 1920s, the debates between 'regulationists' and 'abolitionists', state policies towards venereal disease and syphilis in particular, and the commercial strategies of native and foreign-born prostitutes. This project has dovetailed with an ongoing international collaborative project entitled 'The Cultures of Hygiene in Latin America'.
'Workers, the State and Politics in Peru, 1920-1940', examines how workers in Peru experienced, interpreted and influenced the economic and socio-political changes of the 1920s and 1930s. I use a number of labour disputes as a vehicle to study two main questions: how workers perceived and interacted (a) with the state and (b) with the new radical political parties: the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) and the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA).
Publications
Book
2005 Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia: estudios de historia peruana, siglos XVI-XX [Beyond Domination and Resistance: Studies in Peruvian History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries] . Edited volume (with Leo Garofalo) (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos).
Published articles in refereed journals
2005 'Food, Race, and Working-Class Identity: Populism and Restaurantes Populares in Peru', in The Americas 62:2, pp. 245-270.
2005 'Historiografía, identidad historiográfica y conciencia histórica en el Perú' in Hueso Húmero 47, pp. 3-33.
2004 'Sobre historia y cultura' ['On History and Culture' (review essay)], in Hueso Húmero 45, pp. 113-124.
2004 'Historiography, Historiographic Identity and Historical Consciousness in Peru', Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 15:1, pp. 65-88.
2004 'Madness, Neurasthenia and 'Modernity': Medico-legal and Popular Interpretations of Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Lima', in Latin American Research Review 39:2, pp.89-113.
2004 'The 1934 Southern Railway Strike in Peru' in Bulletin of Latin American Research 23:1, pp. 1-29.
2003 'Historiografia peruana: onde estamos, como chegamos e para onde vamos?' [Peruvian historiography: Where are we, how did we get here and where do we go next?] in Anos 90 No. 18 (Brazil), pp. 56-87.
2003 'Fighting for a Closed Shop: The 1931 Lima Bakery Workers' Strike' in Journal of Latin American Studies , 35:2, pp. 249-278.
2001 'El Comité Distrital Unión Revolucionaria de Magdalena del Mar: Un ensayo de micro historia política' ['The Revolutionary Union District Comittee of Magdalena del Mar: An Essay in Political Micro History'] in Revista del Archivo General de la Nación 23 (Peru), pp. 333-51.
2000 'After the Nueva Historia : Recent Trends in Peruvian Historiography'. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 68, pp. 65-76.
1997 'Obreros e historiadores: Problemas y posibilidades en la investigación histórica del mundo obrero en el Perú' ['Workers and Historians: Problems and Possibilities in the Historical Investigation of Labour in Peru'] in Revista del Archivo General de la Nación (Peru) 16, pp. 329-36.
Chapters in books
2006 'Nation-building, Racism, and Inequality: Institutional Development in Peru in Historical Perspective' in John Crabtree (ed.), Making Institutions Work in Peru: Democracy, Development, and Inequality Since 1980 (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas), pp. 5-23.
2006 'Construcción de nación, racismo y desigualdad: una perspectiva histórica del desarrollo institucional en el Perú', in John Crabtree (ed.) Construir instituciones: Democracia, desarrollo y desigualdad en el Perú desde 1980 (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú/Universidad del Pacífico/Instituto de Estudios Peruanos), pp. 11-31.
2006 Moralidad, moda y sexualidad: El contexto moral de la creación del barrio rojo de Lima' ['Morality, Fashion, and Sexuality: The Moral Context of the Creation of Lima's Red-light District'], in Scarlett O'Phelan y Margarita Zegarra (eds.), Mujeres, Familia y Sociedad en la Historia de América Latina, siglos XVIII-XXI (Lima: Instituto Riva Agüero), pp. 333-354.2000 'Peru, 1884-1930: A Beggar Sitting on a Bench of Gold?' in Enrique Cardenas, José Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp (eds.), An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America. Volume 1: The Export Age: The Latin American Economies in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries , Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 152-87.
Teaching
I teach the following courses:
- HIST10511 Globalisation in Historical Perspective
- HIST20882 Economic and Social History of Latin America, C.1800-2000
- HIST30471 From Silver to Cocaine: The History of Commodities in Latin America
- HIST60421 Methods, Themes, and Approaches in Latin American History
I welcome inquiries from potential research students for the MA and PhD degrees in all areas of modern Latin American history, particularly those areas linked to my research projects (such as the history of state formation, history of sexuality and medicalisation, and working-class history).