Os guardadores de carro e a apropriação de espaço na Cidade de Maputo, Moçambique
Elmer Agostinho Carlos Matos
Abstract:The production of urban space in Maputo city is result of two combined circuits of the urban economy. Families precariously integrated in the capitalist system are (re)produced through the lower circuit. This article explores how the development of certain activities, such as car guarding, become an important part of the social (re)production of segments of the population that are weakly included in urban dynamics. Yet, through these activities workers appropriate spaces to outline new forms of (re)existence. … Show more
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