Colonial order as Threatened Order: the Sangley revolts and Spanish massacres in Manila (1603, 1639, 1662, 1686) (F04)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 170320015

Project F04 examines Spanish colonial rule in the 17th century as a threatened system of order from a diachronic perspective based on the example of the four Sangley revolts in the Philippines (1603, 1639, 1662, 1686). On the one hand, questions will be asked as to how the Spanish administration succeeded in mobilizing very different groups for its campaign against the Chinese-origin Sangleys, how colonial rule in Manila changed as a result of relevant threat communication, and about the re-ordering processes that were established based on such communication. On the other hand, the project will analyse the role that translation processes played in the maintenance of long-distance rule with respect to the global dimension of threat communication.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 923: Threatened Orders
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Renate Dürr, since 1/2019; Privatdozent Dr. Philip Hahn, since 7/2019