Recortes espaciales que configuran el Oriente antioqueño: de la región a la superposición de territorialidades

Abstract

The transformation process of Eastern Antioquia and its configuration as a space of globalization allows us to understand it today as a sum of spatial cuts crossed by a superposition of territorialities, which stress the use and appropriation of this space according to the multiple interests of governing, ordering and enveloping it. The trigger of this process is anchor to a project of functional regionalization derived from the industrial movement since the 70s, which was forging edge polygons, subsidiary fragments of a project of competitiveness development that is maintained today. In parallel, at different historical moments, territorialities of different kinds have been emerging: some in solidarity with the economic project, associated with an idea of intervention at different scales; and others, from contiguity, linked to a social-political project that claims autonomy from the metropolis, with a more horizontal bet. Therefore, the idea of the Oriente as a homogeneous administrative region, which is still used in planning processes, lacks geographical and political support.