De los canales de riego al Dique Ameghino Agua, infraestructura y sociedad en el valle del Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina)

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06/2024
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Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
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Revista de Historia Americana y Argentina
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El artículo da cuenta de las implicancias socio-políticas de la transformación del valle del río Chubut asociada a la agricultura, tal como fue practicada por inmigrantes galeses asentados a partir de 1865. Primeramente, se pondrá atención en las primeras compañías de riego creadas para construir y luego administrar un sistema de canales de irrigación de las chacras, a partir del cual el valle fue subdividido. Se pretende establecer una relación entre la construcción y gestión de ese sistema y la ingeniería societaria conformada por los colonos, para así ponderar la gravitación que la cuestión del agua tuvo en la historia del valle. En segundo lugar, se hará referencia a la disolución de ese tipo de gestión y de las instituciones que la llevaban adelante, a partir del avance de un paradigma de control centralizado que condujo a la estatización del sistema en 1943. Además del reconocimiento de la agencialidad del agua en la historia de la Patagonia extra-andina, importará detenerse en los diferentes objetos que integraron los sistemas infraestructurales —canales, puentes, diques— y en la función simbólica que desempeñaron, especialmente como parte de un marco en el que se creó finalmente la provincia del Chubut en la década de 1950.
The present paper deals with the socio-political implications of the transformation of the Chubut Valley (Patagonia, Argentina) triggered by agriculture as it was developed by a group of Welsh immigrants who arrived in 1865. Attention will be first paid to the irrigation companies formed by the Welsh in order to build and manage a system of canals capable of irrigating the farms. The relationship between the construction and management of this system and the corporate structure formed by the settlers will be addressed as a way of pondering the gravitation that water had in the history of the valley. The paper will then deal with the dissolution of this type of management due to the conflictive advance of a paradigm of centralized state control that would lead to the nationalization of the system in 1943. In addition to the recognition of the agency of water in the history of extraAndean Patagonia, it will be important to focus on the different objects that made up the infrastructural systems -canals, bridges, dams- and also on the symbolic function that these objects performed, especially as part of context in which the province of Chubut was created in the 1950s.
The present paper deals with the socio-political implications of the transformation of the Chubut Valley (Patagonia, Argentina) triggered by agriculture as it was developed by a group of Welsh immigrants who arrived in 1865. Attention will be first paid to the irrigation companies formed by the Welsh in order to build and manage a system of canals capable of irrigating the farms. The relationship between the construction and management of this system and the corporate structure formed by the settlers will be addressed as a way of pondering the gravitation that water had in the history of the valley. The paper will then deal with the dissolution of this type of management due to the conflictive advance of a paradigm of centralized state control that would lead to the nationalization of the system in 1943. In addition to the recognition of the agency of water in the history of extraAndean Patagonia, it will be important to focus on the different objects that made up the infrastructural systems -canals, bridges, dams- and also on the symbolic function that these objects performed, especially as part of context in which the province of Chubut was created in the 1950s.
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