The School of Salamanca

Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the 'School of Salamanca' for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes a different perspective and shows, through a knowledge historical approach and several case studies, that the School of Salamanca has to be considered both an epistemic community and a community of practice that cannot be fixed to any individual place. Instead, the School of Salamanca encompassed a variety of different sites and actors throughout the world and thus represents a case of global knowledge production.



Contributors are: Adriana lvarez, Virginia Aspe, Marya Camacho, Natalie Cobo, Thomas Duve, Jos Luis Eg o, Dolors Foch, Enrique Gonz lez Gonz lez, Lidia Lanza, Esteban Llamosas, Osvaldo R. Moutin, and Marco Toste.