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HOWA

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HOme WAves. Home-making and life trajectories in flood-risk areas of Central Moz...
HOWA is an interdisciplinary research project belonging to critical African Studies, examining how home-making is reshaped under flood risk exposure in Central Mozambique. The project is premised on the conception of homes as spea... HOWA is an interdisciplinary research project belonging to critical African Studies, examining how home-making is reshaped under flood risk exposure in Central Mozambique. The project is premised on the conception of homes as speaking subjects telling us about the entanglements between individual paths, kinship, the environment and the socio-political context. In Mozambique’s low-income contexts, as elsewhere in Africa, people speak through their homes. House-building is a self-authored material and symbolic (non-verbal) language and, therefore, a fertile analytical field. In conditions of material, social and symbolic disruption, as is the case with repeated experiences of flooding, home-making and house building together reveal the complex life paths enacted within (and without) them. Floods are a major and increasingly frequent cause of disaster in eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. 30% of Mozambicans live in permanent flood vulnerability. HOWA investigates how home-making is reshaped in terms of (i) materiality, (ii) sociality and (iii) temporality under enduring flood exposure and displacement. It examines which life trajectories are enacted by, entangled with, and redirect through, the act of home-making before and after flood exposure. A relational and interdisciplinary approach is applied to the multiple dimensions of displacement and resettling. Different types of settings (urban neighbourhoods, resettlement sites, transitional areas) are studied with clusters of methods guided by an ethnographic and house biographical approach. The method itself becomes a form of activism enacted through the research process. By innovatively combining analysis of home-making, displacement, and life trajectories, HOWA in-depth, micro-scale studies hold both social and policy relevance in a time in which disaster-related displacement of vulnerable people is becoming more frequent, transforming interventions through revealing the links between risk and spatial and social belonging. ver más
31/01/2025
UCPH
231K€
Duración del proyecto: 30 meses Fecha Inicio: 2022-07-28
Fecha Fin: 2025-01-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2022-07-28
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021
Cerrada hace 3 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 231K€
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