Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia
A commonplace in our historiography has been to consider that at the end of the XIX century Colombia was isolated from the outside world and was not internally interconnected. Recognizing that this proposition is clearly topologically driven but built without awareness of this fact, in this article...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín
2016-07-01
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| description | A commonplace in our historiography has been to consider that at the end of the XIX century Colombia was isolated from the outside world and was not internally interconnected. Recognizing that this proposition is clearly topologically driven but built without awareness of this fact, in this article similar arguments to show the richness of a highly dense communicational network during that period are presented. Adding conceptual and technical resources from geography, mathematics, ethology and ¿some communication theories¿ to that evidence, it is pointed out that we are dealing with two different order phenomena: geographical difficulty and lack of communication. The opposition to the initial premise is reaffirmed, insisting that sociocultural lack of communication cannot be inferred from the difficulty of moving in a territory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd21303fe5914fc3850b268f70185d5b2022-12-22T03:27:30ZengUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, sede MedellínHistoria y Sociedad0121-84172357-47202016-07-0127497010.15446/hys.n27.44583Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in ColombiaFelipe Gutiérrez Flórez0Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede MedellínA commonplace in our historiography has been to consider that at the end of the XIX century Colombia was isolated from the outside world and was not internally interconnected. Recognizing that this proposition is clearly topologically driven but built without awareness of this fact, in this article similar arguments to show the richness of a highly dense communicational network during that period are presented. Adding conceptual and technical resources from geography, mathematics, ethology and ¿some communication theories¿ to that evidence, it is pointed out that we are dealing with two different order phenomena: geographical difficulty and lack of communication. The opposition to the initial premise is reaffirmed, insisting that sociocultural lack of communication cannot be inferred from the difficulty of moving in a territory.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/hisysoc/article/view/44583/45886networksystemlanguagecommunicationgraphotopology |
| spellingShingle | Felipe Gutiérrez Flórez Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia Historia y Sociedad network system language communication grapho topology |
| title | Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia |
| title_full | Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia |
| title_fullStr | Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia |
| title_short | Geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in Colombia |
| title_sort | geographical difficulties and communication flow in the rise of the twentieth century in colombia |
| topic | network system language communication grapho topology |
| url | http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/hisysoc/article/view/44583/45886 |
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