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- Dr. Rogers Justo Mateus HansineEinklappen
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The intraurban dimension of reproductive choices variation in Maputo, Mozambique – a qualitative study
Despite increasing interest in fertility dynamics in Africa, particularly in urban areas, the question of intraurban dimension of reproductive choices variation has received limited scholarly attention. Through qualitative methods, this study elucidates the social mechanism that produces intraurban reproductive disparities in Maputo. The findings suggest that despite the wider belief that limiting family size is, at personal and familiar level, strategically important for enhancing the prospects for social mobility, and people's strong desire to limit family size, one's opportunities to effectively limit family size vary according to the urban spatial context and personal socioeconomic status.
- Dr. Johanna VogelEinklappen
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Maids' and Madams' Moral Topographies Negotiating Inequality in Transforming Urban India. A Case Study in Chennai
This qualitative study asks whether structural transformation brought about by modernization in contemporary urban India can induce growing equality in the sense of mutual respect between the lower and the middle classes. From the idographic context of female domestic workers and their employers in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) a general type of modernity for the periphery is outlined. Even though changes in this relation are apparent and various forms of respect and recognition are developing, the deep hierarchical differences persist despite - or precisely because of - modernity in the form of capitalism.
- Dr. Axel Prestes DürrnagelEinklappen
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Peri-urban life-worlds contested. Everyday experiences, governance, and conflicts at the rural-urban interface of Maputo, Mozambique
The peri-uban areas of rapidly growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa are the centre of the life-worlds of the continent´s future population. Located at the frontier of expanding cities, the rural-urban interface is also characterised by complexe governance arrangements, where customary institutions and norms exist in parallel to statutory state law. The persistence of peri-urban spaces and the distinctiveness of peri-urban life-worlds have not received the scholarly attention they deserve, and the failure to understand the perspectives of people living in peri-urban areas ultimately leads to discontinuities and conflicts. Based on the example of the coastal plain of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, the author explores the intrinsic qualities of everyday life in peri-urban areas and analyses peri-urban governance and conflicts arising in state-society interactions. By combining a phenomenological life-world with an actor-oriented approach, this e-book shows what it means to be a peri-urban dweller in Maputo and contributes to urban theory in the Global South. Finally, it presents a realistic life-world apporach to planning based on the lived experiences of peri-uban life-worlds.