Procesos de resignificación, desarrollos locales y formación territorial en los territorios nacionales. El caso de la “Suiza argentina” entre los siglos XIX y XX

Abstract

The "Argentine Switzerland", social representation of the northern Andean patagonian area, is a clear example of the complexity of the territorial Argentine formation. Though her differentiated appraisement derives from the process of construction of the national territory in the 19th century, her remeaning like tourist destination in the first half of the 20th century comes from a series of local initiatives linked with exogenous factors. The study of this case puts in question the uniformity of the chronologies and other characterizations adopted for wide regions as the Patagonia, or furthermore for the whole interior of the country. Also it allows estimating early processes of local development understood as local joint with global trends.