Movilización regionalista y nuevos poderes regionales: la fragmentación administrativa del Viejo Caldas y la creación de Risaralda

this paper looks to an approach to the process of creation of risaralda’s department in 1966 and to the establishment of a new regional power rooted in the formation and performance of a regionalist mobilization. the paper arises the movement’s efficiency as an instance of the existence of a diferenciated social space, in which a new elite with particular features of solidarity, identity and cohesion obtained to dominate the power’s balances and to establish a political and social power legitimated by an identity discourse.