EL DIFÍCIL ARTE DE GOBERNAR LA NUEVA GRANADA: BIOPOLÍTICA Y PROYECTO LETRADO EN LA COMISIÓN COROGRÁFICA, 1850-1859.

This article aims to describe and interpret the biopolitical dimension of the Chorographic Commission (1850-1859), which was organized by the central state to obtain relevant information for the governance of the population, the rationalization of production and the promotion of comerce. Starting from the revision of the commissions' documents along with other contemporary texts this article shows how different governance strategies were proposed, some of them focusing on the circulation of people and goods, while other strategies focused on discovering the laws behind socio economic processes paying attention to the particularities of the territory and of the national population. These particularities defi ned the limits of governance, which added to the country's political instability and reduced the impact of the commission's recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]