Territory, elites and socio-institucional networks in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, to the twentieth century.Models in dispute, industrialism vs agribusiness

Abstract

Analysing emergence and consolidation of networks from different nature and scope assigns increasing importance within territorial studies. Different authors consider to territory as a set of political, economic, social, cultural and ecological relationships characterized as a network built on a territorial history. This article emphasises in the spatial and economic structure in the southern region of the province of Cordoba, Argentina, with focus in Rio Cuarto City, identifying the institutional networks built by dominant elites and their main links through time.