Territorial action and construction of development. The experience of rural areas of the Argentine Pampa

Abstract

This work analyses the forms and mechanisms with which the multiple actors involved in a territory generate actions in order to build the future. In order to avoid the use of the concept of development as a referential framework, this work mobilizes the concept of territorial action, because it allows us to analyses more fully the ways in which multiple actors, with diverse and sometimes contradictory representations about the future, put into march initiatives to build and manage their territories. This conceptual and methodological proposal is put into practice in a rural area of the Argentinian Pampas, a territory that has undergone processes of transformation similar to those of other regions of the country, and that therefore can be considered a representative model, not only of transformations territorial, but also of representations of the future on the part of their actors and models of intervention by public, private and collective action.