Participação e representações sociais no processo da governação local em Maputo: o caso do Bairro da Polana caniço A

Abstract

This report analyzes the political participation of communities in the process of local governance in the city of Maputo, with the focus of analysis on the representations created by residents of the Polana Caniço “A” neighborhood. The idea of ​​Local Governance appears in a context where Local Authorities were created (created by Law 2/97 of 18 February), as a way of guaranteeing administrative, financial and patrimonial autonomy with a view to open a space for decision-making by local actors. This process was conceived, in general, under the belief that the effective participation of the populations as an element of Peacebuilding and National Unity. This study looks at the process of local governance as a field where a set of relationships between representatives of local government and members of the community, where the asymmetries of power between the actors involved in the local governance process reveal indicators of construction of spaces and configuration of identities and categories that guide the intervening actors. In order to understand how local governance configures and defines social spaces, this The study was based on an analytical approach to political processes. This approach, is based on the theoretical assumptions of symbolic interactionism, inspired by Goffman (2002), who argues that interaction is a form of behavior, and that The nature of objects in the social world is symbolic. This theory was pertinent because it allowed me to understand how interactions established among residents configure and open space for political action based on their representations and socio-cultural trajectories. This theory took into account ethnography as a method of procedure, supported by participant observation, semi-structured interviews and informal conversations as data collection techniques. From the research I conclude that community participation is a social practice configured by a set of ideas, values ​​and individual and collective behaviors that come to be built and reconstruct in the day-to-day interactions between these (social actors). (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)