Abstract

Based on ethnographic research carried out in Maputo, Mozambique, in this article I explore the significance of housing in an urban context infused by spectacular speculation. As I will argue, in order for different everyday rationalities to become commensurable through speculative investments, they may have to manifest and activate unique and even opposing horizons of value and economic orientations. By thus considering housing beyond conventional dichotomies – Global South vs. Global North, informality vs. formality, global vs. local – we may acquire a more nuanced understanding of those manifold forms of urban engagements that make housing a way of establishing a sense of order and belonging by activating often contradictory moral orientations and hierarchies of value.

摘要

基于在莫桑比克马普托进行的民族志研究，在本文中，我探讨了住房在充满壮观投机的城市环境中的重要性。正如我将论证的那样，为了通过投机性投资使不同的日常理性变得可通约，它们可能必须表现和激活独特的甚至相反的价值视野和经济取向。因此，通过考虑超越传统二分法（全球南方与全球北方、非正式与正式、全球与本地）的住房，我们可以更细致地理解那些使住房成为建立秩序感的多种城市参与形式通过激活经常相互矛盾的道德取向和价值等级来获得归属感。