Successes and failures: the circulation of people, practices and knowledge in the Iberian worlds, 16th-18th centuries

The presentation “Successes and failures: the circulation of people, practices and knowledge in Iberian worlds, XVI-XVIII centuries” offers an updated historiographical framework to recognize the circulatory phenomenon, to establish its interpretative limits and to ponder the contributions of the dossier’s five articles. The emphasis is placed on circulation as a fundamental experience in the Iberian worlds configuration, in its various scales, as a producer of shared meanings and multi-directional itineraries. The role of circulatory processes in defining what was understood as success or failure is also considered. Finally, on the basis of the case studies presented in the articles, basic aspects of the phenomenon are presented, such as institutional and corporative plasticity, community self-organization and the non-normative nature of knowledge in motion.

Keywords:
Iberian worlds; Circulation; Success and failure