| Summary: | The making of the Chilean Far North takes place in the late XIXth century, after a military conquest. This thesis studies its territoriality process throughout the XXth in various cultural productions – literature, poetry, music, visual, Land-Art works. Following multi-disciplinary approach and emotional geo-historical methods, we analyze the main ideas and imaginary of a new, peculiar, desertical, indigenous and strategic North, articulating its appropriations and memories. Scientific, mining and industrial promotion dominates the national Northern imaginary (“top-down”), while a lived space of inhabitants and workers is elaborated during the nitrate cycle. Geographical attachment, the reminding of social conflicts, emotions like nostalgic, contribute to territoriality process, which is not only reflected but enhanced by the documents we focus on. We discuss in many contexts how condensation and memory places are elaborated, at different scales – thus building a “northinity” as a socio-spatial condition, that deals with a devalued «andean» past which becomes later part of Chilean patrimony. The Atacama desert is re-interpreted in the post-dictatorial democratic context, with the perception of a new beginning. The Norte Grande finally refers to a « total spatial fact ». Therefore, a huge diversity of documents demostrate the relevance of fiction in spatial studies.
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