BIO
Carolina Blutrach Jelin (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977; of Spanish nationality) is an independent researcher). She is collaborating on the project ‘The Civilizing Process and the Question of Individuals: Rules, Practices and Subjectivities (17th-19th centuries)’ at Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer de la Universidad de Valencia.
PROJECT
The main objective of the project is to explore the role that travel and its memory play on the aristocratic experience and the configuration of the aristocratic identity. In line with the most recent debates on the construction of the modern subject, this project goes into depth on the negotiated nature of aristocratic identity and memory, which lies between personal and collective. The project is based on the analysis of a specific case: that of the VI Count of Fernán Núez, Carlos Gutiérrez de los Ríos (1742-1795) and Countess María de la Escalavitud Sarmiento (1760-1810). The choice of these individuals who lived in the 18th century allows a focus on a chronological period in which travel and its narration take on a leading position.