Formas del tiempo y construcción territorial en la región patagónica

Abstract

This article provides a conceptual and historical overview on the forms modernity undertakes in the Andean region of the province of Río Negro. From the understanding of mutual constitution between time and space, and by the recognition that the discourseof progress and modernity, there reenablednew perspectives in the analysis of the territorial configuration in areas of subordinated or late integration, as is the Andean Patagonian case. The territory in question was very early categorized as a protected area through the legal entity of National Parks, which significantly restricted possibilities of change and intervention. By reviewing the political and economic orders that go from the first half of the twentieth century to the early twentyfirst century, we see a 'borderline' and incomplete modernity, which reproduces forms of colonial dependence, while it legitimates forms of social inequality. This leadsus into a debate about the materiality that allows this construction, observing in this particular readingof theenvironment many clues to better understand this symbolic frame.