Mineração, deslocamentos compulsórios e identidades em movimento: um olhar sobre as comunidades atingidas pela Vale e Riversdale em Moatize (Moçambique)

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2020-12

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In Mozambique, the debate on major investment projects (GPIs) has been growing significantly, especially in the last ten years. From the debate exclusively dominate by economists, the discussions about the efects of megaprojects in diferent scales started to interest also sociologists, geographers, environmentalists and public health researchers. Under diferents approaches, each subject search in the discussions about megaprojects to explore a specific dimension, that is, the most important to the research aims. This paper analyzes the spatial transformations which occurred in Moatize, with the beginning of coal exploitation, seeking to understand how these changes afected the social structure and the identity of the population. From the integrated reading and dialectic of some categories such as space and territory; the field work performed between 2015 and 2016 in Moatize, and bibliographical research, we argue that with the beginning of coal exploitation occured a rapid changes, affecting thus the references about places, as well as the identity of communities affected by Vale and Riversdale. In fact, symbolic elements like the River, the old house and farm, were lost with the compulsory resettlement.

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Megaprojetos, Deslocamentos compulsórios, Transformações espaciais, Identidades, Símbolo, Megaprojects, Compulsory shifts, Spatial changes, Identities, Symbol

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BATA, Eduardo Jaime; BARREIRA, Celene Cunha M. Antunes. Mineração, deslocamentos compulsórios e identidades em movimento: um olhar sobre as comunidades atingidas pela Vale e Riversdale em Moatize (Moçambique). Iberografias, Portugal, n. 16, p. 245-271, dez. 2020.