Estratégias de acesso à energia eléctrica no bairro da Urbanização

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the strategies of access to electricity in the neighborhood of Urbanization, KaMaxaquene Municipal District, in the city of Maputo. In Mozambique this subject has been analyzed from a programmatic perspective, which perceives access to energy electricity as an economic and social good, seen as the engine for Development economic, political and social. It seeks mechanisms to promote access levels to energy with quality, at an affordable price, and without social exclusion. This perspective, if on the one hand allows to understand the strategies adopted in the policies with view to reducing the levels of social exclusion in access to electricity, on the other hand, little informs about the mechanisms adopted by people to access electricity in a context characterized by significant imbalances and inequities in access to and use of goods and services. In order to understand which strategies are chosen by residents in the neighborhood of Urbanization to have access to electricity, I carried out an ethnographic research and the data harvested allow us to say that “cahora bassa” is an informal energy access strategy power adopted with the complicity and connivance of various social actors. Therefore, this research shows that the daily lives of residents of the Urbanização neighborhood are not limited to in policies, but in social interaction with a view to meeting daily needs. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)