Interacções entre os actores sociais no processo de desenvolvimento local: o caso da alocação dos “sete milhões” de meticais na aldeia de Javanhane, Guijá

Abstract

This research report analyzes the interactions between social actors in a context in which the development of districts is discussed from the District Development Fund, better known as “seven million” of Meticais, in the village of javanhane, Guijá District, Gaza Province. The “seven million” meticais are an instrument of interaction between social actors and, in this context, are seen as an instrument for galvanizing the development process of the country, Mozambique. The “seven million” was funded to cover local initiative investment expenditures for each district so as to provide for food production, job creation and family income, consequently for combating poverty in Mozambique. The study looks at the “seven million” of meticals as a field in which all kinds of interactions between individuals, whether formal or informal, are established, thus building identity categories. In this, the question arises as to what are the logic behind the interactions between individuals in the development process. To this end, the analysis approaches the development phenomenon as a social phenomenon, starting from the situational analysis and the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel (1967), which constituted themselves as a theoretical guiding thread of this research, allowing to understand the behavior of individuals in the relationships they establish in the their day-to-day lives and the meaning they give to their social practices. Using the ethnographic method, data collection through semi-structured interviews and objective conversations. From the research it was possible to affirm that the logic of interaction between the inhabitants of javanhane is based on the articulation of conflicting and harmonious aspects. And second, it is in intra-group interactions that individuals build representative categories among themselves, just as they are transformed into a machine for the production of the country's economic capital. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)