Ideas sobre la nación entre trabajadores del petróleo

Abstract

Although studies on the nation of the late twentieth century concentrated on affirming its artificiality, authors like Benedict Anderson showed that the nation was a historical construction, internally heterogeneous, that generated deep attachments in the subjects. We start from that approach to explore ideas about the nation in a group of workers from the Argentine Patagonia. We will present our theoretical framework, then the methodological strategy implemented and, finally, preliminary results.