DUALISMO E BIPOLARIZAÇÃO EM PAÍSES PERIFÉRICOS: ASPECTOS CENTRAIS DAS TEORIAS DE JULIUS BOEKE, JACQUES LAMBERT E MILTON SANTOS

This article engages in a reflection on the notions of structural dualism and bipolarization as important theoretical contributions that have decisively influenced the development and underdevelopment studies in peripheral countries in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Through the analysis of J. H. Boeke’s, Jacques Lambert’s and Milton Santos’ propositions, it is intended to highlight the central aspects of the dualistic and bipolarization theories, whose premises still reverberate in the development studies in the present days. Finally, the article intends to show that, despite the importance of the questions raised by these theorists, the globalization and the deep social transformations since the last decades of the 20th century impose the necessity of updates and critical reviews of these theories, in order to attend to new realities, such as the metropolization and the widest diffusion of the finances, science and technology.