Construir e viver na periferia da cidade de Maputo: redes e representações sobre o espaço habitacional no Bairro 2000

Abstract

Starting from a study in the neighborhood of 2000, this research seeks to understand the representations, forms of access and permanence in the housing space in the peripheral areas of the city of Maputo. For 15 months, I set aside two days a week to interviews in the 2000 neighborhood, where I also developed my professional activities. I observed the ways that the inhabitants of the neighborhood 2000 adopted to access the housing space in a peripheral area. I also conducted semi-structured interviews that allowed me to have detailed information about the neighborhood under study. Observation and contact with the stakeholders made it possible to perceive what representations individuals attribute to the space for building houses to live in. In this respect, I emphasize the appeal to social networks whether they are related, neighborly, friendship and restraining. The data collected show that the concession and distribution of housing space in the neighborhood of 2000 varied according to three historical contexts, namely: the colonial period, the period of the post-colonial war that intensified in the 1990s and the great milestone occurred in the year 2000, culminating in the name 2000 being attributed to the neighborhood. In the first period, workers from the first owner, who also worked there, lived in the 2000 neighborhood. In the period of the war, the first residents started to grant space to family members and immigrants from various parts of the country due to the growing demand for space for housing. As of the year 2000, there is a new demand for spaces in this area and the residents made concessions to the new interested parties. In this housing space, residents adopt various strategies to solve the problem of lack of employment and to improve the quality of the houses built. These resort to the practice of commercial activities, the so-called "informal". (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)