Compartive Studies on the Caribbean and Atlantic World

The GECCMA research group aims to analyse the processes underpinning the formation of the Atlantic World and, in particular, the Greater Caribbean. Our purpose is to address the multiple Caribbean realities from a transversal perspective, in which comparative analysis makes it possible to identify the singularity of this space through social, cultural, economic and urban history, gender studies, and maritime archaeology. Within this vast sphere, economic and political systems were established, alongside societies, cultures and identities shaped by a continuous process of transculturation. We are especially interested in the functioning of the Atlantic system from the sixteenth century onwards, marked by European expansion, slavery, and social racialisation, where class, “race” and gender intersect, together with the construction of frontier societies.