Impossible graphic representation, Family Farming in the rainfed areas of Río Negro, Argentina

Abstract

The development policies are carried out by multiple agencies, which includes different ways to use the graphic representation such as cartographies, photographs and schemes. Those representations are a performative tool, as they deploy knowledge and intercession in the political field. In the present work, we seek to cross sense of population and representation, within the rural production of the province of Río Negro, in Patagonia Argentina, in one of the activities historically underrepresented, the small scale production of Family Farming in the dryland areas. This production in the last years has had a strong recognition by the National State’s discourse. We will review the role played by the cartographic representation in the discourse, found in the government plans during the last decade (2005- 2015) that tried to generate alternatives to the process of depopulation and population aging. We will examine how the visual representation is built from an ideological point of view.