Rural territory

the origin of the concept and current academic research

Abstract

This article is a study of the origins of the concept “Rural Territoriality” having as start point documents that are at the ground of the territorial policy of the Brazilian Agrarian Development Ministry – ADM – and the academic research the followed it. This survey dealt with a bibliographic research in some internet sites and academic research archives. From those availables were selected Google Scholar, Domínio Público (Public Domain), SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and the IPEA – Economic Research Applied Institute. The first step was a survey of the names of the main scholars that anchor the ADM policy. The further step was an analysis having basically as issue a search for the idea that is at underground of this concept. This research gave way three categories: some authors see the concept from an internal scenario; other’s ones envisage the concept from an external scenario; and, lastly, some researchers dealt with the concept from the point of view of a discussion of territory as a geographic concept.