«Brief introduction to...» mobility, with Pablo Hernández Sau
Mobility is not synonymous with «movement», explains Pablo Hernández Sal. Rather, it is a «subjective and culturally determined experience of displacement». Referring to theorists such as Jason De León, Rosa Salzburg, Noel Salazar, Mimi Sheller and Ana Struillou, the historian argues that «the way in which movement itself is thought about, talked about or represented is highly contextual» and argues that the «new paradigm of mobility» allows us to denationalise historical discourse and understand how experiences of movement influence politics, cultural production and social processes. «A woman alone does not move around the city in the same way as a man or, if she is a mother, she thinks about her travel taking into account the time of other dependents», he reflects. The interview is conducted by Isabel Araújo Branco.
Pablo Hernández Sau is a historian, collaborator at CHAM - Centre for the Humanities, and member of the teaching and research staff at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. His research focuses on the Iberian world of the 18th century, with a particular interest in how the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and attempts to control them by those in power, shaped the Spanish and Portuguese empires during that period. In 2025, he developed the project ‘RIVER-SCAPES. Mobility policy on Iberian colonial waterways (1750-1840)’ (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship) at CHAM, researching mobility regimes and policies along two Iberian colonial rivers, the Mississippi and the Zambezi. With a PhD from the European University Institute, Hernández Sau also completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Manchester, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Madrid and Pompeu Fabra University.
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Isabel Araújo Branco (CHAM)
Organization
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
