Paper short abstract:

The presentation is about the spaces of leisure in Lourenço Marques with the object to discuss their social meanings and the fluid everyday reality in a colonial city.

Paper long abstract:

The presentation will try to reconstruct the leisure spaces in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, as bars, kiosks, theaters, "touradas" and cinematographers, during the period that the city became the most important to the Portugal colonial system in the region because there strategic location. Meeting spaces with plural meanings, the study of these places bring light to the reality of colonialism in urban spaces as a complex relationship between multiples actors. It was at kiosks, for example, that the European white elite gathering to talk, discussing the most important political and cultural/social events, what turned into a major polo of sociability and disseminator of practices and customs. The presentation will also discuss how the contemporary of that pass, especially through the press, discuss projects of society from his views of leisure and the places dedicates to the leisure. However, between these debates of modernization, we can find the everyday life of the social classes that lives in the city.