Governmentality, territory and bio-power in the `30: The Anuario Rural of Buenos Aires province

The historical process in Argentina 1930-1946 was caracterised by the interventionist state extension, a product of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which put an end to the paradigm of outward-looking growth. It was a context of important changes in which the intervention went together with electoral fraud y as it was developing in order to lead to a strict social control without refusing to the agricultural country. The implemented public policies questioned citizens as producers and the intervention adquiried a changing position in the productive practices as well as in the environment in which these interactions were added. The analysis of the Anuario Rural of Buenos Aires province, issued by the Ministry of Public Works, allowed us to understand the interventinist state process as an expression of the state expansion in its technical and bureaucratic aspects.