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Socio"?Spatial Strategies of Worker Centres: An Ethnography of Alt"?Labour in NYC

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12622?af=R Abstract

This article explores the social and material repercussions of middle class aspirations in a system that is still infused by socialist aesthetics in Maputo, Mozambique. We argue the activation of "middle classness" reproduces ingrained inequalities and boundaries. This is demonstrated through two ethnographic case studies of urban housing, long central to imaginaries of prosperity. First, fearing downward mobility, members of the upper middle class seek to embody a liberal ideology of "autonomy", while simultaneously being dependent on state structures. Second, members of the lower middle class attempt to create enclaves to experiment with forms of privatisation normally only accessible to a privileged elite. Through this examination of the ways in which a spectrum of privileged urbanites attempts to secure their position in the face of a precarious future, the article outlines middle classness under contemporary capitalist conditions and how this is shaped by the legacies of the past.

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O artigo explora as repercuss??es sociais e materiais de aspira????es de classe m?dia em um sistema que permanece impregnado por est?ticas socialistas em Maputo, Mo??ambique. Argumentamos que o acionamento da classe m?dia reproduz desigualdades e fronteiras sociais arraigadas. Este ponto ? demonstrado em dois estudos de caso etnogr??ficos sobre habita????o urbana, elemento que desde muito ? central nos imagin??rios locais de prosperidade. O primeiro caso descreve como membros da classe m?dia alta, temendo decl??nio socioecon?mico, pretendem adotar a ideologia liberal de autonomia enquanto simultaneamente se mant??m dependentes de estruturas estatais. No segundo, membros da classe m?dia baixa tentam criar enclaves nos quais podem experimentar formas de privatiza????o que s??o normalmente exclusivas ?? elite. Examinando assim como um espectro de citadinos busca garantir sua posi????o diante de um futuro prec??rio, o artigo delineia o fazer da classe m?dia em Maputo nas condi????es capitalistas contempor??neas e como este fen?meno ali tamb?m ? moldado pelo legado do passado.

» Author: 2> <p>This article examines the typology of worker centres from a socio"?spatial perspective. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork and applying the multidimensional TPSN (Territory, Place, Scale and Network) framework, it analyses th

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