Abstract

TRUCCO, Ignacio Tomás  and  FERNANDEZ, Víctor Ramiro. The Regional Debate in the Periphery. Origin and Transformation Face to Latin American Structuralist Thought. Territ. [online]. 2023, n.49, pp.1-.  Epub Jan 12, 2024. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.11492.

The territorial dimension constitutes an inherent dimension to Latin American structuralist thought, which objected to the spatial metaphors that comprised the main currents of economic thought. The conceptualizations of the center-periphery relations were not limited to formulating hypotheses ad hoc to the pre-existing conceptual nuclei. On the contrary, they tried to capture the specificity of the periphery as a particular historical process of modernization and social structuring. However, the territorial relations of a subnational nature, in other words, the regional issues, had less weight and constituted a genuine problem that questioned this perspective. The present work aims to analyze the development of this debate considering its relationship with the principal Latin American structuralist hypotheses as an analysis criterion. We concluded that this debate was marked by a progressive distancing from the mentioned structuralism theoretical bases, leaving the regional question as a problem pending resolution.

Keywords : Regional development theory; regional planning; rescaling.

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