Territorios y tipos ideales: la incidencia del centralismo eurocéntrico en la narración de tipos humanos y territorios en Joaquín Díaz Garcés

Abstract

The article analyzes the work of the Chilean Joaquín Díaz Garcés — mayor, politician, journalist and 20th-century storyteller — focusing on his representation of human types and their link to the land. Through a narrative influenced by naturalism, Díaz Garcés constructs social archetypes of urban and rural Chile at the time, reflecting practices, migrations and territorial tensions. His gaze, anchored in centralism, articulates a political-cultural vision that defines social subjects and their forms of settlement. From the journalistic elite, he projects a geography of otherness, exalting the landowner and marginalizing the outsider. His work not only portrays but also shapes power relations by associating identity and territory, articulating a discourse of symbolic domination in the midst of modernization and the crisis of the latifundia.