Project description
Flood exposure impact on central Mozambique homemaking
The importance of homemaking in central Mozambique is highlighted in the EU-funded HOWA project. The project will explore how homemaking is restructured with respect to materiality, sociality and temporality when faced with persistent flood exposure and displacement. Mozambique, like other countries in eastern Sub-Saharan Africa, is forced to regularly deal with natural disasters like flooding. HOWA will study how homemaking actions before and after flood exposure impact Mozambicans’ life trajectories. It will leverage ethnographic and house biographical approaches to examine setting types, including urban neighbourhoods and transitional areas, with method clusters. Its findings will provide key insight into the links between risk and spatial and social belonging.
Objective
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.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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