Abstract

BENEDETT, Alejandro  and  SALIZZI, Esteban. 150 years of regional geography in Argentina: changes and continuities in the proposals of regionalization of the national territory (1839-1988). Folia [online]. 2016, n.25, pp.11-34. ISSN 0325-8238.

This article aims to analyze the main proposals of regionalization of the argentine territory developed between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth in order to establish a comparison that provides interpretive keys for the study of the process of conceptual construction of the regional national discourse. These formulations were settled on a static and centralist vision of the country, consolidated over the first decades of the twentieth century. This vision has conditioned and distorted since then -and even to the present- the interpretations of the national territory through the argentine geographic regions hegemonic speech. Finally, it presents a series of conclusions about the way that the regional geography of Argentina has been thought and rethought seeking to clarify how this has served as a vehicle -from its permanence- for the naturalization and subsequent justification of an image and interpretation (of the internal inequalities) of the country that has become hegemonic throughout the twentieth century and only recently has began to be seriously questioned.

Keywords : Argentina; Geographical thinking; Regional geography; Region.

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