Revisiting the formation process of the federal State. Articulations and tensions from the perspective of socio-institutional actors of southern Cordoba (1852-1861) Revisitando el proceso de formación del Estado federal. Articulaciones y tensiones en la perspectiva de los actores socio institucionales del sur cordobés (1852-1861)

BASCONZUELO, CELIA CRISTINA

Avances del Cesor

Investigaciones-Sociohistoricas Regionales

Lugar: Rosario; Año: 2022 vol. 19 p. 1 - 28

1514-3899

This article contributes to a greater knowledge of the construction of the federal State during the years 1852 to 1861, based on the analysis of the performance of social actors and state agents in the south of the province of Córdoba, a space that included the Río Cuarto department, and its internal border. It is of interest for this work to resignify the articulating role of the socio-institutional actors acting in the southern area of Cordoba and to consider the tensions that were unleashed there, in the light of the official correspondence. It focuses on the practices developed by civil and military authorities, in their role as intermediaries in a dynamic that required active subjects to convey, project and materialize the state presence. The analysis deals with both the actions and speeches that proved this articulation and those that revealed the conflicts, all of this to show how the south of Cordoba reacted to the critical knots that state construction entailed in the Argentine Confederation stage.