Formas de apropriação do espaço habitacional num Bairro de reassentamento: o caso de Nkobe

Abstract

This research report looks at ways of appropriating housing space in the Nkobe neighborhood, a resettlement neighborhood in Maputo province. In this neighborhood, it appears that households also use their new residence spaces to do business, activate mechanisms that aim to make the space and the house suit their needs and to constitute elements of distinction with others. Contrary to the prevailing idea in studies on urban resettlements that, households transferred from one space to another, abandon new housing spaces due to the lack of basic infrastructure, this research documents experiences of households that, even experiencing the same problems, find ways to adapt and take ownership of new living spaces. Research shows that resettled in Nkobe they find ways of appropriating the living space for other purposes, besides the act of residing. The fact happens because, the same space is also used as a means of capturing family income. Therefore, for some, the new housing space offers opportunities to improve living conditions. The research is the result of data collection in the Nkobe neighborhood, where I made observation and semi-structured interviews, in contact with the resettled people and entities involved in the resettlement process. And the analysis of the data was made taking into account the theoretical and methodological contribution of the anthropological discipline, hence the emphasis on the confrontation of theories used in social sciences.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)