Cidades informais: o caso da cidade de Praia

Abstract

Em Praia, Cabo Verde, a administração local vem implementando políticas de transformação no espaço, políticas estas que atingem especialmente a área central da cidade. Estas transformações visam à transformação da paisagem urbana esperando especialmente a entrada de turistas internacionais. Este artigo analisa algumas destas transformações e as diferentes percepções que estas acarretam, particularmente para as mulheres vendedoras ambulantes. Trata-se de um estudo etnográfico cujos resultados preliminares apontam para tensões e conflitos entre as políticas de remodelação da cidade e as atividades de venda ambulante efetuadas pelas mulheres.

Recreation and Alcohol Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing Gender and Age Differences in Urban Areas—Praia, Cabo Verde

“…This city is both the political and the economic center of the country, attracting people from other parts of Santiago Island, other islands, and abroad [ 29 , 40 , 41 ]. Plateau (formal area) is the historical center of the city of Praia with more services and infrastructures, as well as fewer residents, compared to other neighborhoods [ 40 ]. The Cabo Verdean population is young.…”

Subverting the morabeza fantasy: Rabidantis and the vicissitudes of belonging in urban Cabo Verde

“…When privatisation transformed the transportation sector and the costs of inter-island circulation were drastically reduced, Rabidancia became a lucrative income-generating activity, especially for impoverished mothers, who, as heads of Households, and given erratic paternal contributions towards child rearing, increasingly turned to the informal subsistence sector to secure a livelihood. 9 Etymologically, the word "Rabidancia" derives from rabida, which first and foremost denotes the resale of fruits, vegetables, dried fish, or second-hand clothes (Grassi 2003;Pólvora 2013). Moreover, it is composed of bida, signifying life, and rabida, which in this context denotes to "returning", or "bouncing back", and unravelling the wires of life.…”

“…These planning regulations -or, "hygenisation policies" (Fortes 2015a) -consequently target the removal of "undesirable activities" from public spaces, which includes in particular the informal subsistence sector (cf. Pólvora 2013). Drawing on ongoing ethnographic research among Rabidantis in the city of Mindelo, I show how, as a result of municipal efforts to manage and curb unlicensed street selling, the Santiaguense Rabidantis I worked with came to be cast as malkiriádas, that is, unruly, confrontational, and rude, unwilling to abide by municipal regulations.…”