Mario Etchechury Barrera

Mario Etchechury Barrera is a researcher at the Regional Socio-Historic Research Institute (ISHIR) of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Rosario, Argentina). He holds a PhD in History from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). From 2009 to 2013, he held a position as a junior researcher in the international project State-Building Process in Latin America, 1820–1870 (European Research Council), directed by Juan Carlos Garavaglia.

He was awarded the François Chevalier Research Fellowship by the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (MIAS) – Casa de Velázquez (Madrid, Spain), and has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno (Italy). His current research focuses on the transnational circulation of mercenaries, volunteers, and adventurers in the 19th century.

The project

Title: Colonialists, Republicans and 'Communists' in the Atlantic World. Towards a New History of the French ‘48 in the Rio de la Plata (1848-1850). 

"The project explores the construction of transnational political connections between the Río de la Plata and France in the context of the 1848 cycle of European liberal revolutions, with a particular focus on the exchange networks established between Montevideo and Paris.

The research is based on the hypothesis that the proclamation of the French Republic in February 1848, and the subsequent radicalisation during the June Days uprising in Paris, had a significant impact on the Río de la Plata. It argues that these events contributed to the emergence of an Atlantic political space through which letters, diplomatic agents, conspirators, militiamen, and exiles from diverse political traditions circulated."

Hosting institution: Mondes Américains - CNRS / EHESS, University Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and University Paris Nanterre.

Selective Bibliography

• “La conspiración de los lombardos”. La inmigración italiana y las redes políticas transnacionales en el Río de la Plata (Montevideo, 1857-1858). Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, vol. 136, n°4, 2024, pp. 181-205 (in collaboration with Nicolás Duffau).
• “Un aventurero del capitalismo global. Las actividades político-financieras de José Buschenthal en el mundo atlántico (1825-1870)”, in Pan Montojo, Juan, Martikánova, Darina (eds). Misioneros del capitalismo. Aventureros, hombres de negocios y expertos transnacionales en el siglo XIX. Camoens. 2023. Pp. 95 - 118.
• “Debates políticos e imaginarios culturales en torno al armamento de los extranjeros (1843-1851)”, in Hébrard, Véronique, Macías, Flavia (corrds) Milices et Gardes nationales Latino Américaines dans une perspective atlantique. Paris, Les Perseides. 2022. Pp. 33 - 49.
• “Blancos transnacionales. Actores y trayectorias del ‘primer carlismo’ en el Uruguay (1839- 1872)”, in Caetano, Gerardo, Boquetas, Magdalena (eds). Historia de los conservadores y las derechas en Uruguay. De la contrarrevolución a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Montevideo, Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 2022, pp. 84-99.
• “Hijo del mundo y caudillo de partidarios: Garibaldi y la política de facciones en el exilio rioplatense (Montevideo, 1841-1848)”, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Tel Aviv, Vol.32, N°2, 2021, pp.74-100.
• “Las milicias de voluntarios franceses en el Río de la Plata. Tradiciones bélicas, politización y diplomacia informal en tiempos de crisis (1829-1851).”, Historia Caribe - Volumen XIV N° 35 - Julio-Diciembre 2019, pp. 85-118.
• “Legionarios, enganchados y cautivos. Apuntes para una investigación sobre las formas de reclutamiento transnacional durante la Guerra del Paraguay (1864-1870)” in Fradkin, Raúl, Garavaglia, Juan Carlos (eds.), A 150 años de la Guerra de la Triple Alianza contra el Paraguay. Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2017.