反叛的愿望吗?莫桑比克马普托脆弱的中产阶级乌托邦

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
M. Nielsen, Paul Jenkins
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摘要

基于来自莫桑比克马普托的人种学数据,本文探讨了中产阶级作为一种乌托邦式的愿望,通过特定形式的划分来表达,这种划分通过不断推迟稳定不断增长的中产阶级人口来维护自己。然而,正如我们所争论的,正是通过这种延迟的方式,产生了新的城市公民身份形式——这种形式可供假定的“中产阶级”成员使用,也可能可供其他将中产阶级作为城市理想的居民使用。在简要回顾了如何确定中产阶级地区之后,本文通过比较近年来莫桑比克实施的两个最大的国家资助的城市规划倡议来讨论上述论点。第一个是在马普托北部边缘的Intaka社区,那里的居民重新配置了该地区的物质美学,以便将自己与基于所谓的国家认可的中产阶级价值观的集体区分开来——但他们不想继续依附于这种价值观。第二个是在KaTembe半岛,在那里,擅自占用者入侵了“新城”的建筑工地,并开始建造芦苇小屋,为水泥砖房屋奠定基础,以便在其他地方重新安置。引人注目的是,在这两个例子中,中产阶级似乎是由城市居民群体实现的,他们并不渴望典型的空间设想的中产阶级地位。然而,令人惊讶的结果是,这仍然清晰地表达了中产阶级的特定概念,以及城市生活的主流乌托邦意识形态。
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Insurgent aspirations? Weak middle-class utopias in Maputo, Mozambique
Based on ethnographic data from Maputo, Mozambique, this article explores middle-classness as an often-utopic aspiration articulated through particular forms of divides, that assert themselves by continuously deferring the stabilization of a supposedly growing middle-class population. As we argue, however, it is precisely by way of this deferral that new forms of urban citizenship are produced – that are available to the assumed members of the ‘middle-class’, as well as potentially to other residents enacting middle-classness as an urban ideal. After a brief review of how middle-class areas can be identified, the paper discusses the above argument through a comparison between two of the largest state-sponsored urban planning initiatives to be implemented in Mozambique in recent years. The first is in the Intaka Community on the northern periphery of Maputo, where residents re-configure the material aesthetics of the area in order to separate themselves from a collective that is based on supposed state-sanctioned middle-class values – but to which they do not want to remain attached. The second is in the KaTembe peninsula, where squatters have invaded the building site for the ‘New City’ and commenced building reed huts and laying foundations for cement-block houses in order to be resettled elsewhere. Strikingly, in both instances, middle-classness seems to be actualized by groups of urbanites that do not desire typical spatially envisioned middle-class status. However, the surprising effect is that this still articulates a particular conceptualization of middle-classness with a dominant utopian ideology for urban living.
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Critical African Studies
Critical African Studies Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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