BIO
Alexandre Coello de la Rosa (Barcelona, 1968) is an associate professor at the Department of Humanities at Universidad Pompeu Fabra. His research has specialized in ecclesiastic history and historical anthropology, on which the author has written significant monographs, books and articles.
PROJECT
In the project Coello will analyze the Jesuit missionary networks as a whole as platforms of colonial expansion, in particular examining the geopolitical dimension of the missions in Mindanao and Jolo (the Philippines).
The project will provide a new approach, not only with respect to the colonial processes in the Asia-Pacific area, but also the general processes of globalization.