Isabel María Povea Moreno (Spain, July 7, 1982) is a Spanish historian who has specialized in
social history and mining history of
Spanish America, with special emphasis on the
history of women in colonial mining.
Education and career
Minería y reformismo borbónico en el Perú. Estado, empresa y trabajadores en Huancavelica, 1784-1814 (2014)[1]
Povea Moreno studied for a bachelor's degree, advanced studies diploma and doctorate in the History of the Americas at the
University of Granada.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Retrato de una decadencia. Régimen laboral y sistema de explotación en Huancavelica, 1784-1814, was directed by Miguel Molina Martínez and she defended her dissertation on July 14, 2011.[3] From 2012 to 2014, Povea Moreno completed a postdoctoral stay at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). From 2015 to 2016, she was a visiting-professor at El Colegio de San Luis. From 2018 to 2021, she was a professor-researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. As of 2021, she is a professor-researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS).
The Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences awarded her in 2017 the prize for the best article in Social History of 2015 for "
Coacción y disensión. Protestas frente a los repartimientos mineros en Perú y Nueva España, siglo XVIII" published in the journal Estudios de Historia Novohispana published by the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la UNAM.She is secretary of the Executive Board of the Latin American and Iberian Association of Social History (ALIHS in Spanish) since 2019.[4]
In her book, Minería y reformismo borbónico en el Perú. Estado, empresa y trabajadores en Huancavelica, 1784-1814, Povea Moreno delves into the study of the social history of the mercury mines of
Huancavelica, the various occupations of the workers and includes the importance of female work in the production of mercury.[8] The great novelty of the book, according to the historian Miguel Molina Martínez, is the "analysis that it dedicates to the role played by women in the work of the mine."[9] In 2015 the book was considered one of the 10 best books of history of Peru published in 2014, and occupying 5th place, based on a survey of 35 Peruvian and foreign historians carried out by the blog El Reportero de la Historia.[10]
In her work on mining in
New Spain, from different mines such as
Zimapán,
San Luis Potosí, or
Zacatecas, she first studied mining conflicts related to labor practices;[11] including the different ways in which gambling was carried out in these places. In a second stage, she studied the participation of women in mining in New Spain, expanding her analysis to colonial Spanish America, with emphasis on the historiographic "invisibility" of women and children.[12]
Isabel María Povea Moreno & Felipe Castro Gutiérrez (April 29, 2016)
Since July 2015, together with Felipe Castro Gutiérrez, she has organized and coordinated the seminar and blog
Sociedad Indiana. Historia social de los mundos indianos which is hosted by the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.[13] The seminar has a monthly periodicity and the first session was held on January 29, 2016 with the presentation of Brígida von Mentz. The seminar's blog publishes announcements, essays, book reviews, and bibliographies. The seminar has published two books. The first, Los oficios en Hispanomérica colonial, is an outreach text of collective participation published by the Red Universitaria de Aprendizaje de la UNAM in 2019. The second book, Los oficios en las sociedades indianas, is the product of the colloquium "Los oficios en las sociedades indians" that took place on October 24 and 25, 2018.The book was published in 2020 and the publisher is the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la
UNAM. A hemerography or compilation of scientific articles related to indigenous social history is published in the seminar's blog (2015-2022).
Povea Moreno, Isabel María; Castro Gutiérrez, Felipe, eds. (2019).
Los oficios en Hispanoamérica colonial (in Spanish). Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Book chapters
Povea Moreno, Isabel María (2023). "Trabajar en un "oscuro abismo". Formas de captación y remuneración de los trabajadores en la minería de la América española, siglo XVIII". In Mazín, Óscar; Bautista y Lugo, Gibrán (eds.). El espejo de las Indias Occidentales. Un mundo de mundos: interacción y reciprocidades. Mexico: El Colegio de México & Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
ISBN978-607-564-483-7.
OCLC1391130419.
Povea Moreno, Isabel María; Musotti, Sara (2023). "Historia de las mujeres y de género en el noroeste de Nueva España y México: un balance historiográfico (1990-2020)". In Méndez Medina, Diana Lizbeth; Musotti, Sara (eds.).
Tendencias en la historiografía bajacaliforniana del siglo XXI(PDF) (in Spanish). Mexicali, Baja California: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
ISBN978-607-607-813-6.
Povea Moreno, Isabel María; Zagalsky, Paula (2022). "A diverse world: A panoramic view of colonial mine labourers based on case studies from the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru". In Revilla Orías, Paola; Cruz terra, Paulo; De Vito, Christian G. (eds.). Worlds of Labour in Latin America. Berlin: The Gruyter Oldenburg. pp. 11–40.
doi:
10.1515/9783110759303-002.
ISBN9783110759303.
OCLC1294426124.
S2CID246256649.
Povea Moreno, Isabel María (2020). "'No se les pida ni lleve tributo'. Trabajadores mulatos e indígenas del Real de Tlalpujahua y la re-imposición del tributo a finales del siglo XVIII". In Castañeda García, Rafael; Ruiz Guadalajara, Juan Carlos (eds.). Africanos y afrodescendientes en la América hispánica septentrional. Espacios de convivencia, sociabilidad y conflicto. El Colegio de San Luis.
ISBN9786078666744.
OCLC1302894892.
Articles
A complete list of refereed scientific articles can be found in the historian's personal profile on
Google Scholar.
^Povea Moreno, Isabel María (2014). Minería y reformismo borbónico en el Perú. Estado, empresa y trabajadores en Huancavelica, 1784-1814 (in Spanish). Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos & Banco Central de Reserva del Perú.
ISBN978-9972-51-484-5.
OCLC934602129.
^Povea Moreno, Isabel M. (2014). Minería y reformismo borbónico en el Perú: estado, empresa y trabajadores en Huancavelica, 1784-1814. Serie. Lima: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú IEP, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
ISBN978-9972-51-484-5.