Instabilidade político-militar, deslocamentos compulsórios e a vida cotidiana em Moçambique: uma agenda de pesquisa

Abstract

Two decades after the end of the postindependence civil war in 1992, Mozambique experiences an instability caused by the political-military tension between the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) and the National Resistance of Mozambique (RENAMO). Thus, the country is plunged into a real war scenario, with the central region as the main center for military action. The present work aims to analyze some social effects of this military political tension in the daily life of the Mozambican people and highlight some issues for future ethnographic researches. At the same time, we criticize certain dominant discourses in the Mozambican "public arena" that, deliberately or not, reduce the social and economic effects of political-military tension to "scaring away of foreign investment" and, consequently, unfeasible development of the country. These discourses ignore, purposely or not, the socioeconomic effects of conflicts for "common citizens", especially those living in rural areas.