Municipality and Nation. Public Services, Symbols and Rituals during the Peronism (Rosario 1943-1945)

Abstract

This article analyzes the centralization of the Peronist government in a medium span city like Rosario. The aim is show how Peronism transform the Central State in a National and Peronist State, through a policy of control and centralization on government of the Argentine cities like Rosario. The analysis of the processes of nationalization of public services, previously concessioning for the municipality, allowed us of exploring the reaches and limits of the Peronist central planning. By analyzing the production of a symbolic system peronist and peronizing (addition to exposing the contradictions of this project nacionalizing-centralizing) we have visualized in rituals and anniversaries as a symbolic “lubricant” of that sociocultural machine. Peronist nationalism material was supported by the production of meaning, able to shape what P. Bourdieu called sociodicea.