Luanda e Maputo: inflexões suburbanísticas da cidade socialista à cidade-metrópole neoliberal

Raposo, Isabel Simões; Jorge, Sílvia; Viegas, Silvia; Melo, Vanessa

doi:10.7213/urbe.7395

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“…There is thus a need for a careful analysis of such translocal policy assemblages in their relation to broad, longue durée political histories, if we are to minimally understand what is, or was, going on at different sites in different time periods. See more, Ascensão (2013), Raposo and Oppenheimer (2007) and Valladares (2006). 2 This preparation included the subversion of technical economic parameters of conservative housing policy Casas Econó micas (Affordable Houses) to make way for more democratic urban forms, materialized in the planning and architectural construction of grand ensembles of modernist buildings such as Olivais Sul (Nunes 2007).…”

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Interfaces of informality

Ascensão¹

2016

City

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What happens at the interface of states and urban poor populations that live in informal settlements? How are academic disciplines, such as law, architecture or economics, and technical instruments, such as computer software, summoned to the interactions between experts from state or city governments and the laypeople whose housing and lives the former's work is meant to improve? This paper reflects on these questions as it examines two different experiments, one historical and another from the recent past, in housing provision or amelioration for the residents of informal settlements. In post-revolutionary Portugal, the SAAL (Serviço de Apoio Ambulató rio Local) housing program (1974-76) included 'technical' brigades of legal, architectural and economic experts tasked to help shanty town dwellers improve their housing conditions, either by assisted self-building or classic new-build. It was a clear example of the progressive urban politics of the time, or dialogical technical democracy avant la lettre. Some 30 years later, in Lisbon during the late 2000s, as a part of an urban regeneration program devised within the framework of multicultural urban politics and delegative forms of democracy, a detailed survey of non-and substandard houses was carried out with a bespoke computer software, which aimed at representing the technical feasibility of rehabilitation, rather than replacement, of those dwellings. Both experiments constituted platforms with the stated objective of working for the community and through which new state-citizen relationships were to be forged with the urban poor, but how were the latter's knowledges and wishes integrated?

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Interfaces of informality

Ascensão¹

2016

City

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“…The analysis of the empirical data was followed by iterative analyses of publicly available official statistical data from the National Statistics Institute's populational censuses from 1980 to 2017 (INE, 2000, 2009, 2019) as well as household surveys (2012a, 2012b) and secondary literature based on the populational census data (Firmino, 2005) and historical data and literature on Mozambique and Maputo city (Barros et al., 2014; Cruz e Silva, 2001; Geffray, 2018; Honwana, 2010; Jenkins, 2000; Raposo et al., 2012; Roque et al., 2016). These analyses of census and household surveys were carried out to get a‘big picture’ overview of the socioeconomic and linguistic distribution of resources across social space and to provide a comparison of the sociodemographic, economic and linguistic data over time at the national, provincial and district levels, particularly between the two districts in Maputo city, the inner city district (KaMpfumu) and a district in the poverty belt (KaMubukwana).…”

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“…Even in material urban space, Portuguese remains a generative dynamic in the construction of Maputo's enduring geographies of inequality, inherited from the colonial era and visibly present in the physical, social and economic inequalities that prevail today (see, e.g., Barros et al., 2014; Jenkins, 2000; Raposo et al., 2012; Roque et al., 2016). Notions of spatial divisions co‐exist in the imaginaries and even in the material urban organization of the city.…”

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From racial to linguistic social divisions: Coloniality in contemporary Maputo

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2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Inspired by Bourdieu's work, this study draws on multidisciplinary datasets to unravel the role of language and symbolic power for retaining social hierarchies and crafting ‘distinctive’ selves in postcolonial times. Showcasing Mozambique's capital city of Maputo, the study relies on censuses from the period 1980 to 2017, historical data, interviews and metadiscursive reflection to problematize how education can serve as an instrument to effectively inscribe a certain social order in people's minds and bodies that can lead to an unconscious acceptance of social differences and hierarchies, to ‘a sense of one's place’. Probing into complex temporal and spatial co‐presences, the paper highlights the role that education has played in promoting ideas central to the divisive dynamics of Portuguese and how social distinctions that were obviously more overtly racial in colonial times have become more covert and have found more fine‐grained linguistic expression and perpetuate conditions of coloniality in contemporaneity.

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“…The nationalisation of property in February 1976 allowed for many residents of the subúrbios to start living in the houses and apartments that had been abandoned (Roque et al 2016;Morton 2013Morton , 2019. 13 As a result of these political and demographic changes, the city's racial, social and economic differentiation faded significantly (Penvenne 2011;Raposo et al 2012;Roque et al 2016). In the Museu area, as was the case across the city, many properties were nationalised and became inhabited by people coming from the subúrbios.…”

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The City and the Barracas: Urban Change, Spatial Differentiation and Citizenship in Maputo

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Mucavele²,

Noronha³

2020

Urban Forum

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The paper discusses Maputo municipality's plans for the modernisation of the Mercado do Museu, an iconic informal market located in the high-end Polana neighbourhood, which has long been a place for fervent social encounter among people from different social and economic origins. The Mercado's upgrading plans emerge within the context of Maputo's intensely urban transformation that has led gentrification effects, especially in the city's wealthiest areas. This stems partly from private real estate investment, and also from large infrastructure and housing projects promoted by the Mozambican state. Modernist planning ideals and their ordering impulses shape the way municipal authorities view the city and its spaces of informality, contradicting the urban form produced and lived by the majority of Maputo's inhabitants. While Mercado do Museu has enabled the production of urban social life and the foundations for urban inclusion and citizenship, the modernisation project brings forward "conflicting rationalities" (Watson Planning Theory and Practice, 4(4), 395-407, 2003). However as modernist views of cities are broadly shared across Mozambique's urban society, the "conflicting rationalities" being played out are not only situated around urban material form; but rather between material expressions of urbanity and personhood; between urban form and urban citizenship.

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Luanda e Maputo: inflexões suburbanísticas da cidade socialista à cidade-metrópole neoliberal

Cited by 16 publications

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Interfaces of informality

Interfaces of informality

From racial to linguistic social divisions: Coloniality in contemporary Maputo

The City and the Barracas: Urban Change, Spatial Differentiation and Citizenship in Maputo

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