Imagining the Nation, Building the Region: Discourses and Practices in the Río Negro Press (1900–1930)

Abstract

This article analyses the aspects of the so-called “Argentinisation” process in the National Territory of Rio Negro during the early twentieth century. Using examples from the regional press, an essential actor in development, we examine two key facets of the nation-building process. These include the regional particularities of the process designed for the whole Argentine territory, and the intrinsic exchanges that take place between discourse, theory and practice in the construction of a regional space.