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Borderland Sovereignties SSStttooonnnyyy BBBrrrooooookkk UUUnnniiivvveeerrrsssiiitttyyy The official electronic file of this thesis or dissertation is maintained by the University Libraries on behalf of The Graduate School at Stony Brook University. ©©© AAAllllll RRRiiiggghhhtttsss RRReeessseeerrrvvveeeddd bbbyyy AAAuuuttthhhooorrr... Borderland Sovereignties. Postcolonial Colonialism and State Making in Patagonia. Argentina and Chile, 1840s-1922. A Dissertation Presented by Alberto Harambour - Ross to The Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Stony Brook University May 2012 Copyright by Alberto Harambour 2012 Stony Brook University The Graduate School Alberto Harambour - Ross We, the dissertation committee for the above candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, hereby recommend acceptance of this dissertation. Brooke Larson – Dissertation Co-Advisor Professor, Dept. of History Thomas Klubock – Dissertation Co-Advisor Professor, University of Virginia Paul Gootenberg - Chairperson of Defense Professor, Dept. of History Paul Firbas Dept. of Hispanic Languages and Literature This dissertation is accepted by the Graduate School Charles Taber Interim Dean of the Graduate School ii Abstract of the Dissertation Borderland Sovereignties. Postcolonial Colonialism and State Making in Patagonia. Argentina and Chile, 1840s-1922. by Alberto Harambour - Ross Doctor of Philosophy in History Stony Brook University 2012 Analyzing the processes of Argentinean and Chilean colonization of southern Patagonia, a territory that remained unsettled by European powers, this dissertation seeks to understand ‘frontier expansion’ as part of a world-wide imperial impulse in late 19th century. Based on metropolitan and local archival work, this dissertation develops a transnational as well as a comparative approach to the regional formation of those States, by following the flow of people and capital to Patagonia. In doing so, it also explores the impact of imperial knowledge in the formulation of national policies, arguing that the region remained a marginal area with very weak State presence, in spite of its centrality in the nationalist imaginaries. Early efforts at penal, administrative, and racial colonization invariably ended in failures. A radical shift took place in the 1880s, however, after an invasion of people and animals from the British colony of Malvinas (Falklands). The landing of sheep meant the start of an accelerated process of State and capital formation, which radically transformed the social and ecological landscape. I argue that it was the articulation of networks of racism and corruption, linking Argentina’s and Chile’s metropolitan oligarchies and European immigrants that defined the pace of colonization. This expansion resulted in the rise of working class and regional identities across a vague border around 1910. The multinational workers’ insurgency challenged the overwhelming power of monopolies and its alliance with local functionaries. Paradoxically, however, discourses of social mobilization were increasingly framed in nationalist terms, and a bloody crack-down in 1920-1922 resulted in a decisive divide between Chilean and Argentine sectors. Overall, the dissertation aims to contribute to borderland studies, addressing the intimate relationship between state and capital accumulation in a colonial/postcolonial setting. iii “Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: —no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. In calling up images of the past, I find the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes: yet these plains are pronounced by all most wretched and useless. They are characterized only by negative possessions; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm possession of the memory? Why have not the still more level, the greener and more fertile Pampas, which are serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression? I can scarcely analyze these feelings: but it must be partly owing to the free scope given to the imagination. The plains of Patagonia are boundless, for they are scarcely practicable, and hence unknown: they bear the stamp of having thus lasted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess, who would not look at these last boundaries to man’s knowledge with deep but ill-defined sensations?” Charles Darwin, Conclusion to The Voyage of the Beagle (1839). Para Camilo, Víctor, y Emilio. La historia es vuestra. iv Figure 1. Branches of la Anónima (1929). Map indicating the branches of the Sociedad Anónima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia, Argentina Austral, 01.08.1929. The journal of the Braun-Menendez’s was published in Buenos Aires, for free, starting July 1929. It was an instrument for lobbying in favor of the self-claimed pioneers. From parallel 41 to 55, the SAIEP was by then the unrivaled merchant and moneylender. Patagonia’s empty maps of the 1880s were filled by La Explotadora and La Anónima. To map them was to map the whole Patagonia. v Contents. List of Figures. .............................................................................................................................. vii Abbreviations. .............................................................................................................................. viii Acknowledgements. ....................................................................................................................... ix Introduction. ................................................................................................................................... 1 The Patagonian Borderland...................................................................................................... 3 Sovereignties and State Building. ............................................................................................. 7 Transnational dimensions of local State Building. ................................................................ 15 A note on Patagonian historiography. ................................................................................... 18 Organization of chapters. ........................................................................................................ 23 Sources and Clues. ................................................................................................................... 26 Time Periods and Sources. ...................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER I. NATION, IMAGINATION, EXPANSION. POSTCOLONIAL COLONIALISM IN SOUTHERN PATAGONIA. ................................................................................................................................... 32 State and Nation as Expansion. .............................................................................................. 33 Imagining Patagonia................................................................................................................ 44 Marching sovereignties: Chile and Argentina about the Patagonia. .................................. 55 Conclusions. ............................................................................................................................. 78 Chapter 2: Colonial Fictions, National Frustrations. Penal, Administrative and Racial Policies in Southern Patagonia, 1840s-1910. .............................................................................. 81 Penal Colonization ................................................................................................................... 85 Legal-Administrative Colonization. ....................................................................................... 94 Racial Colonization................................................................................................................ 101 The Frustrated Colonization. ............................................................................................... 111 Conclusions. ........................................................................................................................... 118 CHAPTER 3. THE STATE AND THE MAKING OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF CAPITAL. .................... 121 State Formation, Capital and Sovereignty. ......................................................................... 121 Corruption and State Building. ............................................................................................ 125 Land and Corruption ............................................................................................................ 129 Tierra del Fuego. ................................................................................................................... 151 The Imperial Capital. .................................................................................................... 159 Conclusions. ......................................................................................................................
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