{"title":"Ongoing mobilities and the deserving self: the case of Don Rodrigo de Vivero","authors":"Nino Vallen","doi":"10.1080/14701847.2022.2140959","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Few sixteenth- and seventeenth-century creoles lived a life as mobile as don Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberruza. Born in Tecamachalco (Puebla) in 1564, he travelled to the Spanish court at the age of twelve. After his return to New Spain in 1580, he fought against the Chichimeca in New Mexico and against English pirates in Acapulco, served as interim governor in Manila and spent a year in Japan after having shipwrecked on its coasts. After another stay in Spain, he served as governor in Panama from 1621 to 1627 before returning to New Spain, where he received another office in Veracruz. Such movements played a crucial role in the identity that Vivero and other men fashioned for themselves. In his interactions with the Crown, Vivero produced a self-image that tied his worthiness of the king’s favour to his mobility. This paper explores how the relationship between mobility and the distribution of royal grace affected the movements within the Spanish empire and the writings of those petitioning the Spanish Crown for royal favor. I argue that over time Vivero revised his stories, left movements unmentioned, or recalibrated the balance between mobility and rootedness while fashioning various images of a deserving self.","PeriodicalId":53911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"439 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2022.2140959","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Few sixteenth- and seventeenth-century creoles lived a life as mobile as don Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberruza. Born in Tecamachalco (Puebla) in 1564, he travelled to the Spanish court at the age of twelve. After his return to New Spain in 1580, he fought against the Chichimeca in New Mexico and against English pirates in Acapulco, served as interim governor in Manila and spent a year in Japan after having shipwrecked on its coasts. After another stay in Spain, he served as governor in Panama from 1621 to 1627 before returning to New Spain, where he received another office in Veracruz. Such movements played a crucial role in the identity that Vivero and other men fashioned for themselves. In his interactions with the Crown, Vivero produced a self-image that tied his worthiness of the king’s favour to his mobility. This paper explores how the relationship between mobility and the distribution of royal grace affected the movements within the Spanish empire and the writings of those petitioning the Spanish Crown for royal favor. I argue that over time Vivero revised his stories, left movements unmentioned, or recalibrated the balance between mobility and rootedness while fashioning various images of a deserving self.
在16世纪和17世纪,很少有克里奥尔人的生活像don Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberruza那样流动。他于1564年出生在特卡马夏科(普埃布拉),12岁时前往西班牙宫廷。1580年回到新西班牙后,他在新墨西哥州与奇奇梅卡人作战,在阿卡普尔科与英国海盗作战,在马尼拉担任临时总督,在日本海岸遭遇海难后,他在日本呆了一年。在西班牙又呆了一段时间后,他于1621年至1627年担任巴拿马总督,然后回到新西班牙,在韦拉克鲁斯获得了另一个职位。这些运动在维维罗和其他人塑造自己的身份中起着至关重要的作用。在与国王的互动中,维维罗塑造了一种自我形象,将他对国王的青睐与他的机动性联系在一起。本文探讨了流动性和皇室恩典分配之间的关系如何影响西班牙帝国内部的运动以及那些向西班牙王室请愿的人的写作。我认为,随着时间的推移,维维罗修改了他的故事,没有提及运动,或者重新校准了流动性和根基之间的平衡,同时塑造了各种值得拥有的自我形象。