El complejo papel de la violencia para sustentar o desafiar la autoridad policial en el Territorio Nacional de La Pampa, 1884-1930

Abstract

This article examines the half century between 1884 and 1930, to analyses the articulation between the police figure as representative of a state regulating violence, and the effective use of violence in social practices. The inhabitants of the National Territory of La Pampa feared that the use of weapons would bring to the city the kind of brutality that was associated with rural life. Since the 1920s, different sectors with greater political, economic and social impact will strive to manage violence and to realize the monopoly of violence.