Imagined Contested Spaces: The Imaging of the Patagonian Region (1840-1881)

dc.contributor.authorMagoia, Rosana Ceciliaen
dc.contributor.committeechairArnold, Linda J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBixler, Jacqueline E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFarquhar, Sueen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:46:19Zen
dc.date.adate2006-11-28en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:46:19Zen
dc.date.issued2006-09-22en
dc.date.rdate2012-10-10en
dc.date.sdate2006-10-03en
dc.description.abstractThis study underscores the importance of press discourse as means of production and circulation of representations regarding land and people. Considering the press has a strong influence on the construction of social imaginaries, this study explores how textual images in The (London) Times and The New York Times shaped public opinion about Patagonia and Patagonians and how those images relate to the United States and British national and international political agendas and to the historical/cultural context. In other words, this study proposes to analyze the relationship between media and agency. The time period under study is the second half of the nineteenth century the era during which Argentina focused on the need for exercising sovereignty over Patagonia as a way of expanding the state's frontier, incorporating new commercially productive lands to respond to the demands of the international market, contesting in this way the Chilean interests in the area, and responding to the demands of the aspirations of a ruling class "landed aristocrats" who wanted to attract Europeans. The analysis of this research draws on a total number of 669 articles which have been coded with the purpose of assessing the differences between the United States and British imaging of Patagonia and Patagonians, taking into consideration that England was directly linked through financial investment to Argentina while the United States had chosen a military policy to expand its control of western lands (1865-1890), similar to the Argentine policy for controlling northern and southern lands.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-10032006-212030en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10032006-212030/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/35278en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartETD_Magoia.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectOthernessen
dc.subjectpoweren
dc.subjectagencyen
dc.subjectnewspaper discourseen
dc.subjectknowledgeen
dc.subjectstruggles of representationen
dc.subjectlanguageen
dc.titleImagined Contested Spaces: The Imaging of the Patagonian Region (1840-1881)en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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