looking catembe, mz from the indian ocean
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Looking Catembe from Indian Ocean
Pedro Pereira Leite –CES-UC2nd AEGIS Conference
Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean,
Lisboa, april 2015
route
1. Space
2. People
3. Biographical Research
SPACE
1.
Ka – tembe, Mz
Facing the Indian Ocean
PEOPLE
2.
Santos Rufino, 1929
Landscape
• Maputo Bay (Delagoa Bay until early XX C.) is the basin of Tembe and Maputo rivers.– Sandy soils with low water retention– Environmental protection zone (Ramsar Convention. 1971)
• Region Maputaland-Pondoland
• Population movements in the nineteenth century the Tembe– Languages (mixture of Tsonga and Nguni)– Livestock and agriculture– The warrior tradition
• Occupation and Portuguese colonization in the nineteenth century– Creation of indigenous reserves (until 1940)– Agricultural colonization of alluvial valleys– Logging ativity
• The arrival of “canecos"– Goa fishermen
Images from the sixties
http://youtu.be/AX9VGwUSOgE
The Bridge from Diana Manhiça
Bagamoyo
• Bagamoyo is a ferryboat that has provided a daily connection for the last 40 years between the city of Maputo and Catembe– carrying passengers, vehicles, goods, from five in the
morning until mid nigth
– Diana told the stories of people who know the Bagamoyoand depend on it for their day-to-day lives.
BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH AS ACTION
3.
Theoretical approach
• Social neurocience– Individuals participate in experience processes,
both, individual and collective.• Each individual is a reality that exists in relation to
others;
• It is through to the social experience that each individual captures the adjustment of its position in the social and trains your own ability to transform (Padeia)
• It is necessary that every human being has references
– So the construction of the references is a social process and that is trained.
Tensions on space and people
• changes in the dynamics of space.
– The bridge projet
• The perception of change
– people know that life and the space will change
• What science can do to participate in the changing process ?
– Indian Ocean is a dynamic space in a changing world
Live Historie of Catembe Today
Live Histories
The Bridge
Waht I do
• Research on Live Histories– Mrs. Nagira (n. 1947, in Maputo).
• Woman with 6 sons, living in the past 5O years in Catembre
– Mr Nuru (n. 1938, in Goa)• Moving to Catembe in 1960
– Mr. João (n. 1950)• Born in Catembe, medecine studies in Lisbon, store house
– Mr. Maurício Tembe (n. 1942, Mazambine)• Head neighborhood
– Diana Manhiça (n. 196? in Lisbon)• Film maker
Some questions
– Beyond the question of tradition and modernity– colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization
• Urban as the locus of tension in transition– Can we improve fluid Networks and contra hegemonic Powers in the
Western Indian Ocean ?– How to face the urban violence ?
• Build a bridge, urban projet, social transformation
• Habitat and Poetics (of space) (Bachelard, Watzlawich)
– What we feel, what we say and do not say– Looking for:
• way of life, culture, environment, neighborly relations, – new ways of living in sustainability.– Happiness and wellfare
• How to do it ?
Research-action projet in Catembe
• House for what? For whom?– The african space :
• the house and the outside space as a unit.
• It’s a oportunity to re conect the individual, the family and the comom space.
– Haw to integrate the BM ?• To understand, to interpret, and to act
– The Biographical method to:• Improve the self
• Co-create
• To Promote Encountering
