Indicios de un arte de gobierno de Indias en los siglos XVI-XVI.

Towards the mid-seventeenth century, a vast network of consolidated and interconnected American cities expanded with established power spaces, where diverse strategies of government over Indian populations and territories were deployed. In this paper we will schematically reconstruct this political rationale, the forms of government aiming at the organization of populations undergoing demographic destruction since the beginning of the 1500s. We will trace back the clues to the political problem at instituting an order, building and maintaining a city, the type of governmental rationale and the indigenous populations it strategically targets. In the archives, we will investigate those statements about an art of government of the Indies that aims at directing the populations to make them work in certain conditions, to make them occupy a specific position in the space of the city, to obtain docile bodies. How are the Indies and the indigenous populations governed in classical coloniality? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]