Banca de DEFESA: Sabrina Durigon Marques

Law and the coloniality of property: an intersectional analysis of urban land access legislation in Brazil

The law found in the street; women; access to urban land; gender inequality; coloniality of property.

Based on a historical analysis of Brazilian legislation, we seek to understand to what extent the Law and laws are responsible for the housing deficit being predominantly female. The research seeks answers to the following question: what are the reasons why women suffer more from the housing deficit and have less land ownership than men? The historical recovery is combined with an intersectional analysis involving class, race and gender, in order to identify the elements that contribute to the fact that urban land ownership is still concentrated in male hands today. For this analysis, several regulations were analyzed, from the Philippine Ordinances to the present day, with the application of the intersectional lens.