Notes for a dialectic approach on town-country relations: from the classical model to the new challenges

Abstract

Social sciences constantly draw town-country relations analysis from a univocal interpretative model. Thus, its meaning for the comprehension of social phenomenons has been neglected. The present article searches for theoretical subsidies which allow us to think about how complex town-country relations are. In order to fulfill this objective, we’ll start from the classical basis of the debate, which has influenced formulations announcing the end of contradictions concerning these relations. Once we have shown that the theory of capitalism’s uneven development refuses such thesis, we’ll be led to the analysis of the Brazilian case, then suggesting a range of possibilities to conceive the dialectic analysis of town-country relations.