| Sumario: | The financialization of global economy generates heterogeneous developmental processes, with highly competitive export agents together with more vulnerable ones oriented primarily to the internal market. All of this happening in the same territory, where struggle for ownership and resource control, either symbolic or material, sets up conflictive processes, determined by asymmetric domination relationships. The State, as a social relationship, has two functions: accumulation and legitimacy. Through the exercise of the latter, the State facilitates the configuration of productive schemes and networks of subordinate groups, which manage to build local territorialities. This research’s purposes are: to unravel the territoriality process of subordinate groups by analyzing a productive development experience, and to describe the State’s role in holding such networks. In order to do that, we present as case study an associative experience of local farmers who produce melon in San Juan (Argentina). This descriptive study aims at characterizing cases that set up new territories from a bottom-up perspective, through a methodological triangulation of qualitative data (interviews to public officials, technicians and producers), as well as quantitative data (censuses). Finally, public policy guidelines are proposed for the sector, that arise not only from the case study but from the research project that frames this article.
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