Suchergebnisse

Este artículo presentará un análisis de las relaciones con la aridez en la provincia de Catamarca (Argentina) durante los siglos XIX y XX, en perspectiva histórica y antropológica. La categoría aridez operará como condensador de una serie más amplia de descriptores, entre ellos abandono, pobreza, atraso, incultura, sequía, desidia, miseria. Mediante un rastreo documental, intentaremos demostrar que estos descriptores se consolidan como características espaciales "evidentes" entre 1870 y 1920, diagnosticadas repetidamente por los contemporáneos y entendidas por ellos como una fatalidad que pesa sobre la provincia. Este proceso se vincula estrechamente a prácticas e imaginaciones territoriales movilizadas por los actores asociados a nuestras versiones locales de modernidad. En este marco, Catamarca será crecientemente vinculada al desierto, pero no al patagónico (conquistable) sino a otros desertus "inviables" (Benedetti, 2005), abandonados de la civilización y de la naturaleza, in-cultos. Sostendremos que este conjunto de categorías, articuladas y consolidadas en el tiempo, constituyen un imaginario geográfico (Massey, 1999) y revisten las características de un mito: una narrativa con la potencia para organizar tiempo, espacio, prácticas y subjetividades.

The thesis addresses journalistic, administrative and judicial historical documentation to analyze the links between aridity and geographical imaginaries in the province of Catamarca (Argentina), from a historical point of view. The research aims to contribute to the understanding of the "non-hegemonic" versions of Modernity, its territoriality and the productions of geographic imaginaries that they involve. To provide a broad purpose, it raises as an object of study the ways in which "modern" practices, actors, links, discourses and expectations about the territory are mobilized when they are located in a space in "other" water conditions. those that are intended to "civilize" it. The general objective of the research is to analyze time-space controversies around water in the city and valley of Catamarca towards 19th and 20th centuries. The specific objectives derived are a) analyzing how various actors are related to waters behavior - in other words, the local water regime – in Catamarca and the meanings built around it. b) to analyze the controversies about the place of Catamarca and its water regime in the local and national geographic imaginary. c) analyze controversies in which the relationships between actors and materialities involved in modernization projects are put into discussion. These concerns by the experience of the actors and by the historical-spatial imagination of the territory, combined, led to the construction of an interdisciplinary methodology based on tools from anthropology, sociology, geography and history.

The thesis addresses journalistic, administrative and judicial historical documentation to analyze the links between aridity and geographical imaginaries in the province of Catamarca (Argentina), from a historical point of view. The research aims to contribute to the understanding of the "non-hegemonic" versions of Modernity, its territoriality and the productions of geographic imaginaries that they involve. To provide a broad purpose, it raises as an object of study the ways in which "modern" practices, actors, links, discourses and expectations about the territory are mobilized when they are located in a space in "other" water conditions. those that are intended to "civilize" it. The general objective of the research is to analyze time-space controversies around water in the city and valley of Catamarca towards 19th and 20th centuries. The specific objectives derived are a) analyzing how various actors are related to waters behavior - in other words, the local water regime – in Catamarca and the meanings built around it. b) to analyze the controversies about the place of Catamarca and its water regime in the local and national geographic imaginary. c) analyze controversies in which the relationships between actors and materialities involved in modernization projects are put into discussion. These concerns by the experience of the actors and by the historical-spatial imagination of the territory, combined, led to the construction of an interdisciplinary methodology based on tools from anthropology, sociology, geography and history.