The article analizes local history from the regime sociology proposed by Fred Spier and classified by Norbert Elias. The text analyzes political, environmental, and personal aspects in local environments. The author exposes the concept’s explicative and analytical functionality, and it instrumentalizes it in the case of the founding and the social ambiance of San Juan Girón (Santander, Colombia) in the 17th century. The founding is seen as the establishing of a political regimen whose figures and active entities are represented by the city’s governor and cabildo, in the framework of a series of jurisdictional conflicts with the native inhabitants and of neighboring localities. The effect of the founding motivates a process of colonization in a geographical countryside which determines the environmental regime in which are found colonists, large landowners, farmers, and cattle ranchers. Finally, the individual regime is translated into the creation of kinship networks, which reflect differentiations, social, and ethnic rivalries among groups and distinguished people of the locality. The author backs his work with primary and secondary sources to give an account of the political-administrative process of the founding and the emergence of people who constituted the socio-administrative and managing network of the historic event.

The text offers a general focus on the historiographical tendencies, problems, and topics of regional and local history in Latin America; in particular, starting from the impact of European and North American historiography on the subcontinent. The author offers his reflective and theoretical conception of the meaning of local history, and, in a critical style, warns against the limitations and extent of the professionalization of the discipline by using the following questions: What is local or regional history? What are the perspectives which are seen in this genre of historical discipline in Latin America? Why should we do local, regional, or micro-history? How is this genre cultivated in Latin America? And, finally, What does it mean to do this kind of history in our countries?

The article analyzes the strategies, the mechanisms and the institutions created by the human groups settled in the Colombian Pacific South between 1780 and 1930. The text offers an explanation of the why of its adaptation, transformation, and interchange flow, and how they achieved their own dynamic which currently constitutes a sub-regional identity in the national sphere. The author takes regional matters as his nucleus and analytical perspective. The initial contextualization of these matters is given from the historical-demographic-social dynamic of its inhabitants, of which a majority was slaves, followed by free men, and aborigines. Finally, the author analyzes with broad procedural and general strokes, the region-economy, region-state, region-markets, and region-city relationships of the object of the study from the chronological framework proposed

The article at hand analyzes and describes the dynamic and organizational shape of the Club Sporting, a civic association of a sporting character, in the municipality of San Vicente de Chucurí (Santander, Colombia) between 1962 and 1966. The objective is to explain its impact on the cultural and everyday life of the members and inhabitants of the municipality, and how the project is able to motivate the social and political participation of citizens. The text describes how the main activity which brought all of the activities together is the sporting routine and how, in particular, soccer and field and track allowed for its inhabitants to create emotional bonds, social solidarity, spaces for entertainment, recreation, and the achievement of a particular sport infrastructure that was inexistent until that moment. The rigorous documentary is backed by field work whose information is collected with the techniques of interviewing, consultations of local public and private archives, and secondary sources which motivate the author to center on the local social actors and natural leaders of the community

A separate or a formed body? Somatic discipline in the Manuelita, Inc. 1927–1965 Company is the title of the thesis written by the author, and from which this article circulates its conceptual tools and the succinct contents of its investigative interdisciplinary experience. The guiding thread, from an analytical and thematic perspective, is the topic of the body, the concept of somatic discipline, and local history; central axes for exploring the changes which agro-industrialization the administrative changes in the Manuelita, Inc. Company produced, located in the Valle del Cauca department during the period of 1927-1965. The purpose of the author is to show how, in spite of the implementation of the modern administrative, political, social, and cultural models which were owned by agricultural industrialization, these are combined with colonial models, if you will, pre-modern, to construct and strengthen the company in terms of permanent work force, feelings of belonging, levels of confidence, familiarity, and a work ethic which would allow for results in agricultural production.

The text offers a review of local studies in the Colombian environment. The author contextualizes the balance with the antecedents of world historiography. He dialogues from distinct historiographical sequences and nuances and clarifies the typology of the micro-history studies which classifies or relates to local history, collective mentality, regional history, everyday life, connected histories, and prosopography.

The present essay offers, from the investigative experience of the author and his contact with the municipal community of Tuluá (Valle del Cauca), an assessment of the potential from motivations which originate upon writing local histories. Motivations stemming from personal or family matters, from the vindication of people or historic events which form a part of a community’s memory, from emotional, and from social issues, are all considered relevant by the author. Finally, local history is seen by the author as a very useful practice for teaching and learning from local realities.

The author offers a reflective essay on his research experience in the execution of the Historia de Bugalagrande project. He describes the way in which he researched and wrote on the local history of his native soil, a town in Valle del Cauca, from the establishing of ranches in the beginning of the 17th century, it’s transformation into an estate, and later, undivided property, until physically constituting itself into a town with its streets and plazas at the end of the 19th century. The text gives reference to the theoretical and methodological contributions, the handling of sources, and the narration developed by the author. The reflections lay bare the influence of the classical English Marxist historians, Italian microhistory, Mexican microhistory, and local historians from Valle del Cauca. The project and the experience were developed during the researcher’s sabbatical

La tesis es un aporte a la historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, que permite dar voz a quienes de manera silenciosa han tenido presencia en ella. Es un acercamiento desde la memoria, expresada de manera oral y escrita, a la historia de los trabajadores de la Universidad y de sus formas organizativas, que parte de la primera organización en un sindicato en el año de 1943 y desde allí da una mirada al complejo mundo de los conflictos y las relaciones laborales, al papel de la Universidad y del Estado como "patrones" y de la vida, la cultura y los imaginarios de sus trabajadores, hasta 1980, año de expedición de la Ley 080 que marcará un nuevo proceso de declive, derrotas y guerra sucia para la historia de todos los trabajadores colombianos, y que no fue ajeno para los servidores de la Universidad.

La tesis se compone de 218 páginas, ocho mapas y cinco gráficos, y es el resultado de una investigación para optar al título de Magíster en Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín. El trabajo se divide en introducción, cuatro capítulos y conclusiones.La tesis esboza algunas líneas de interpretación y aporta una serie de materiales con los cuales los historiadores pueden incursionar en uno de los temas sobre los que menor reflexión tiene el campo de la historia social de la ciencia en Colombia: el estudio de las políticas aplicadas por los funcionarios borbónicos y algunos particulares miembros de las élites locales con respecto al surgimiento de la salubridad de los habitantes de los centros urbanos del Nuevo Reino de Granada.

La parte ofrece referencias y listados de publicaciones sobre historia local y regional en Colombia publicadas en los últimos años.El objetivo es promocionar el acontencer editorial nacional e internacional, y ofrecer el espacio a historiadores interesados en difundir novedades relacionadas con la producción de nuevo conocimiento histórico.

HiSTOReLo nace con la presente edición electrónica y como proyecto editorial de la Asociación Colombiana de Historia Regional y Local, órgano integrado por investigadores, historiadores y estudiantes de historia de distintas universidades públicas y privadas del país.HiSTOReLo es una publicación sometida a revisión anónima de pares académicos. Promueve el debate teórico, historiográfico y metodológico en los estudios de historia local y regional. Es también un espacio de socialización de resultados de investigación elaborados por personas interesadas en la creación de conocimiento histórico. La revista acepta propuestas que propendan por la relación de la disciplina con otras ciencias, con miras potenciar el dialogo interdisciplinario. HiSTOReLo nace para editarse públicamente cada seis meses en Internet y proporcionar acceso libre e inmediato a cada edición electrónica

This document is the product of research on forced displacement and the resettlements which have been made in Cali, treated through distinct graduate theses from students of the Department of Geography of the Universidad del Valle. The analysis starts with urban anthropology and feminist geography, in which the effort is made to analyze the life trajectories of displaced men and women who have constructed a city, the way in which they have informally settled, and what were their strategies of survival and appropriation of city spaces (in a manner which differentiates between men and women)

The article at hand explains the process of the creation of the Department of Cauca in 1910. This was an event which constitutes an important date in the regional history of the Colombian Southwest, keeping in mind that it concludes: 1) the process of the dissolution of the State of Cauca, which was in the process of being organized by the national government since the end of the 19th century, and 2) the separatist movement of the Valle de Cauca elite which desired autonomy from Cauca. The author analyzes the role of the elite and the regional and sub-regional leading groups, some of which were centered on maintaining their traditional political power and others in defending the autonomy of the sovereign states. Likewise, the author offers her comprehension on the expression of the Valle de Cauca elite, especially those who were from Cali, through the newspapers and private correspondence, interested in giving force to the separatist political-administrative movement. For the focus, the distinct laws and decrees which allowed for the constitution of the department are taken into account, as are, similarly, the written expressions of local newspapers by the groups interested in the project.