Resumen

LOPEZ PACHECO, Jairo Antonio. Regionalist mobilization and new regional powers: the administrative fragmentation of Viejo Caldas and the creation of Risaralda. Soc. Econ. [online]. 2011, n.21, pp.125-145. ISSN 1657-6357.

This paper looks to an approach to the process of creation of Risaralda’s department in 1966 and to the establishment of a new regional power rooted in the formation and performance of a regionalist mobilization. The paper arises the movement’s efficiency as an instance of the existence of a diferenciated social space, in which a new elite with particular features of solidarity, identity and cohesion obtained to dominate the power’s balances and to establish a political and social power legitimated by an identity discourse.

Palabras clave : Regional Power; Regionalist Mobilization; Administrative Fragmentation; Risaralda; Pereira.

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