The role of the state in shaping the processes and aesthetics of urbanisation at the peripheries in Mozambique

国家在塑造莫桑比克周边城市化进程和美学方面的作用

• 批准号: 2901796
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2901796
• 关键词: role; state; shaping; processes; aesthetics

The role of the state in shaping the processes and aesthetics of urbanisation at the peripheries in MozambiqueGeneral topicThe role of the state in processes of peripheral urbanisation in Mozambique; how encounters between people and the state shape the landscape in urban peripheries; and what effect this has (for the landscape, its aesthetics, and the legitimacy of the state).Research questions1. How does the state shape processes of peripheral urbanisation?a. In what ways is the state felt, affectively and functionally, through both its absence and presence on urbanising peripheries?b. Are there 'blanks' (Nielsen, 2007) in what people know and how they think about the state, and if so, how do these get filled?2. In what ways do encounters between people and the state become 'stencilled' (Sumich & Nielsen, 2020, p. 1217) into the fabric of the landscape? What is the effect of this 'stencilling' for the aesthetics produced, and for the legitimacy of the state?3. To what extent is the state challenged or reproduced in urban peripheries outside of the middle-classes and elites in Maputo? Do those political and class dynamics reach places on the urban edges, how far and in what ways?Origins and development of this proposal - previous researchThis proposal builds on my master's dissertation for MSc Urbanisation and Development where I explored house-building, temporality, and urbanisation over three periods of research in a locality near Inhambane, Mozambique. That project stemmed from an observation that the way people were building houses and the landscape was being transformed (with new shops, government administrative functions, roads, schools) was out of kilter with what much of the literature on peripheral urbanisation in Africa would suggest. By looking specifically at who was building houses, how, where, with what aesthetics, and the effect of this, I argued the area was urbanising in a locally rooted way that emerged out of a specific historical context and was entangled with other places and times.However, throughout I was also struck by the relationship between house-builders and urbanisation, and the state. On the one hand, there was almost universal dissatisfaction and commentary about the government, corruption and the state stifling domestic building and infrastructure projects. On the other hand, there was a discrepancy between who had their projects (seemingly arbitrarily) halted or stopped by officials, compared with those who could continue, and who was fined, how, and when. While people increasingly had better access to services, it was also not clear why the state provided some forms of infrastructure (like electricity) but left others to local businessmen (like water) and the complaints about officials and the government were much greater than in last seven years that I have visited. When I asked why everyone was building now, I was told it was because people were worse off than ever before. Yet their response to political economy uncertainty was to funnel money into building and infrastructure that indicated visible signs of growing prosperity.

国家在莫桑比克周边城市化过程和美学中的作用一般主题国家在莫桑比克周边城市化过程中的作用;人与国家之间的相遇如何塑造城市周边的景观;以及这有什么影响（对于景观，其美学和国家的合法性）。国家如何塑造周边城市化进程？a.在城市化的边缘地带，国家是以什么方式在情感上和功能上被感受到的？B.人们对国家的了解和看法是否存在“空白”（尼尔森，2007年），如果存在，这些空白是如何填补的？2.人与国家之间的相遇以何种方式被“模板化”（Sumich & Nielsen，2020，第1217页）成为景观的结构？这种“模板印刷”对所产生的美学和国家的合法性有什么影响？3.在马普托，中产阶级和精英之外的城市边缘地区，国家在多大程度上受到挑战或复制？这些政治和阶级动态是否会影响到城市边缘的地方，影响有多远，以何种方式？这个建议的起源和发展-以前的researchThis建议建立在我的硕士学位论文的城市化与发展，我探讨了房屋建设，时间性，城市化在三个时期的研究在一个地方附近的因汉巴内，莫桑比克。该项目源于一项观察，即人们建造房屋和景观改造（新商店，政府行政职能，道路，学校）的方式与非洲周边城市化的许多文献所建议的方式不一致。通过具体观察谁在建造房屋，如何建造，在哪里建造，用什么样的美学，以及由此产生的影响，我认为该地区的城市化是以一种植根于当地的方式进行的，这种方式源于特定的历史背景，并与其他地方和时代交织在一起。然而，自始至终，我也被房屋建造者与城市化和国家之间的关系所打动。一方面，几乎普遍存在对政府、腐败和国家扼杀国内建筑和基础设施项目的不满和评论。另一方面，与那些可以继续的人相比，谁的项目被官员（似乎是任意的）停止或停止，谁被罚款，如何以及何时被罚款，这两者之间存在差异。虽然人们越来越多地获得更好的服务，但也不清楚为什么国家提供了某些形式的基础设施（如电力），而将其他形式的基础设施（如水）留给了当地商人，对官员和政府的抱怨比我过去七年访问过的要多得多。当我问为什么现在每个人都在建设时，我被告知这是因为人们的生活比以往任何时候都更糟。然而，他们对政治经济不确定性的反应是将资金投入到建筑和基础设施中，这些建筑和基础设施表明了日益繁荣的明显迹象。