State, financial capital and emergence of new actors in the use of territory: reflections on the Maputo Circular Road - Mozambique.

• Grant number: 24/07742-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Fabrício Gallo
• Grantee: Lucas Atanásio Catsossa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/08480-8 - Public power, financial capital and uses of territory: the participation of institutional investors and investment funds in the highway concessions in São Paulo, AP.R

Abstract

In Mozambique, financial capital has produced a new socio-spatial order characterized by changes in the content of the national territory.Although constitutionally it is established that the Mozambican territory is one and indivisible, on a local scale, the reality has proven to be complex and multifaceted.The presence of financial capital in Mozambique has been the origin of a new order, which in practical terms nullifies the principle of unity of the national territory.As a result, the role of the State has changed profoundly, from a provider of public services to citizens, to a regulator of the common interests of hegemonic agents, which are manifested through privatizations and concessions of public infrastructures on the basis of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).The empirical focus of the research proposal is to investigate the process of construction, concession and installation of tolls on the Maputo Circular Road, capital of Mozambique.