This course will examine the concept and development of revolutions and globalization. We will focus in costs of statu-quo, reformism and “change through revolutions“, including alternatives not taken. First we will have a general approach to the narratives and tools of revolutions. We will go into the so-called “Atlantic revolutions“, from the 1770s to the 1820s, including those in the USA, France, Haiti and Spanish America, representing “political modernity“. Then we will study revolutions in Economy and production, from iron and coal to steel and petrol, technoscience, the 1950s and recent digital developments. Last but not least, we will study cultural revolutions in the sixties, from food to music, fashion, consumerism and definition of humanities.
mANUEL lUCENA-gIRALDO
Dr. Manuel Lucena-Giraldo is Research Scientist in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, and Adjunct Professor in IE Business School/IE University. He is the director of the Chair of Spanish and Hispanic Heritage of the Universities of Madrid. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Lecturer BOSP in Stanford University and Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University (Sweden), Tufts University (Boston), Javeriana University (Colombia), IVIC (Venezuela), Colegio de Mexico, Universities of the Andes (Chile and Colombia) and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He was Education Attaché in the Spanish Embassy in Colombia and held foreign education positions. He was representative of the CSIC at the European Science Foundation, COST Universities Network Manager and Research Advisor at the Carolina Foundation, SEPIE and ERC. His publications include a number of books on travels, scientific expeditions, cities, images of nations, empires or globalization. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of National Geographic in Global History and the Section Committee of History & Archaeology of Academia Europea.
