La congregación como tecnología disciplinaria en el siglo XVI

Resumen

Congregation, in its three modes of population concentration, municipalization and hierarchization of settlements, was a mechanism of spatial reorganization which distributed individuals and groups to different places and functions, and constituted the prerequisite step for the instituting of Latin American colonial subjection processes. Michel Foucault has stated that the application of capitalist disciplinary technologies began in Europe at the dawn of the seventeenth century; however, these technologies actually first appeared in late fifteenth and early sixteenth century America with the spatial redistribution of populations undertaken by the Spaniards after each regional conquest.