Repensando el Estado como institución

Poder central, cultura local y relaciones centro-periferia en las interpretaciones de Juan Maiguashca DOI y el debate Schwarz-Carvalho Franco

Abstract

This article aims to challenge the models of analysis about the nineteenthcentury
state and its implications to the national formation, starting from
a bibliographical review on some of the most relevant works about the
theme, which is tackled here by taking into consideration the Ecuadorian
and Brazilian cases. The reasons for doing so is to submit to close scrutiny
one of the major historiographical interpretations of the process of national
formation in Equator, which has turned out to be an important framework
to Ecuadorian historiography about the subject. We refer to the study of
the state as an institution, developed in the 1990s by Juan Maiguashca. The
interpretive contributions of this scholar raised, at that time, challenging
scenarios for a topic that until then had been defined by the view of the
state as a structure of domination. This article retrieves critically this
contribution by submitting to questioning the conception of central power
formation, based on a center-periphery model of analysis present by the brazilian scholars Roberto Schwarz and Maria Sylvia de Carvalho Franco.