Education

Since 09/2021	PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
Since 08/2019	PhD Candidate, Center of Historical Studies, El Colegio de México
08/2017 – 08/2019	Master of Arts (maestría) in History, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
08/2012 – 01/2017	Bachelor of Arts (licenciatura) in History, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa
02/2013	Bachelor of Arts (licenciatura) in Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Work Experience

Since 09/2021	Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
01/2021 – 05/2021	Teacher, Departamento de Historia, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
08/2020 – 10/2020	Teacher, Instituto de Estudios Críticos
09/2015 – 03/2016	Research assistant, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Project: "Civil society, morality and freedom: an intellectual history of the language of political economy in Hispanic modernity. 1780-1871"

---

Supervisor:
Dr. Guillermo Zermeño Padilla, El Colegio de México

---

The concept of civil society is important in current discussions about democracy, the participation of social movements in political spaces, and the formation of spaces of sovereignty. However, amid the virtues conferred on the concept of civil society, political economy plays a relevant role within the cultural critiques of the disposition of affections, emotions, fantasies, and the formation of historical futures. In these criticisms, the current political economy maintains a dispossession aspect to the extent that it embeds part of the crisis of expectations about the ways of life and the affective disposition towards the political.

From this ground of concerns between present and past times, the objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between the concepts of civil society and political economy. In a genealogical gesture, situated in the Hispanic world, the aim is to demonstrate that the link between the intellectual history of political economy and the formation of historical futures in Hispanic modernity participated in the formation of specific reflexivity on civil society. The main starting point is to demonstrate that this reflexivity, linked to the global processes of capitalism and late rivalry between the European powers, led to the formation of a language of civil rights based on the conceptual substrate of the mercantilist political economy. From this, it is expected to contribute to contemporary discussions, in Latin America, from a study situated between the complexity of modern societies and the configuration of historical futures from the utopia of mercantilist civil society.

Chapters

Medel Barragán, Daniel (2019): “¿Una república en los reflejos del príncipe? Organismo y specula en la representación del espacio político entre los siglos XVII y XVIII”, in: M. Alcántara, M. García Montero y F. Sánchez López (coords.), Historia y Patrimonio Cultural. Memoria del 56ª Congreso Internacional de Americanistas: Salamanca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, pp. 1623-1632.

Medel Barragán, Daniel (2019): “Comunidad y clausura. Una lectura desde la suplementariedad del sujeto”, in: D. Brauer, O. Acha, A. Ratto y F. Martín (comps), Buenos Aires: TeseoPress, ISBN 978-987-86-1586-8.