THE LAND OF THE WATERSHED: MOVING BORDERS and imaginary territorial in nation building. CHILE. XVIII-XIX
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2012
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UNIV BARCELONA, DEPT GEOGRAFIA HUMANA
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The definition of imaginary places from territorial constructed so significarlos hegemonic ends up reading about abstract and normalizing. However, smaller spaces remain and pose a Local rationality whose dynamic forwards in a dialectic to its own region and broader referential contexts. In the construction of the nation, this relationship is expressed from the existence of territorial representations marked by diversity of riverine regions, called here the river country, with other larger scale, as was the building of a country homogeneous, integrated and unified the country in the nation. Investigating the process of territorialization and re-territorialization around the nation in formation with a specific case study associated with the normal border Patagonian Chile and Argentina, as well as highlight the existence of borders moving from one process, is the focus of the research problem formulated by
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territory, nation, region borders