O Direito à Cidade de Mulheres: Uma análise sobre suas limitações a partir de violências infraestruturais de gênero contra brasileiras em Londres e na Maré, Rio de Janeiro

TY - JOUR

T1 - O Direito à Cidade de Mulheres

T2 - Uma análise sobre suas limitações a partir de violências infraestruturais de gênero contra brasileiras em Londres e na Maré, Rio de Janeiro

AU - McIlwaine, Cathy

AU - Krenzinger, Miriam

AU - Rizzini Ansari, Moniza

AU - Evans, Yara

AU - Sousa Silva, Eliana

PY - 2021/5/1

Y1 - 2021/5/1

N2 - This paper examines obstacles to ensuring a gender just right to the city emerging from direct forms of gender-based violence and indirect infrastructural violence against women and girls. Drawing from the so-called ‘infrastructural turn’ in urban studies, the article presents an innovative analytical tool for the growing debate on the gender dimensions of urban violence. Methodologically, it presents empirical analyses of the transnational nature of gender-based violence against women in cities, reporting a quali-quantitative survey conducted between 2016 and 2018, with Brazilian women residing in London and women residing in one of the largest group of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Maré. The study found that structural and infrastructural violence are directly implicated in the dynamics of gender-based violence that present severe restrictions on women’s right to the city – be it regarding the difficulty of access to services and rights in the case of Brazilian migrants in London, or in the context of daily armed violence in the case of women in Maré. The article contributes to the interdisciplinary encounters between legal geography and feminist urbanism, formulating an understanding of gender-based violence in global cities in multidimensional, multiscalar and transnational terms, which transcend intimate, individualized and private experiences.

AB - This paper examines obstacles to ensuring a gender just right to the city emerging from direct forms of gender-based violence and indirect infrastructural violence against women and girls. Drawing from the so-called ‘infrastructural turn’ in urban studies, the article presents an innovative analytical tool for the growing debate on the gender dimensions of urban violence. Methodologically, it presents empirical analyses of the transnational nature of gender-based violence against women in cities, reporting a quali-quantitative survey conducted between 2016 and 2018, with Brazilian women residing in London and women residing in one of the largest group of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Maré. The study found that structural and infrastructural violence are directly implicated in the dynamics of gender-based violence that present severe restrictions on women’s right to the city – be it regarding the difficulty of access to services and rights in the case of Brazilian migrants in London, or in the context of daily armed violence in the case of women in Maré. The article contributes to the interdisciplinary encounters between legal geography and feminist urbanism, formulating an understanding of gender-based violence in global cities in multidimensional, multiscalar and transnational terms, which transcend intimate, individualized and private experiences.

KW - right to the city

KW - Infrastructural violence

KW - Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)

KW - feminist urbanism

M3 - Article

SN - 2317-7721

VL - 13

SP - 954

EP - 981

JO - Revista de Direito da Cidade

JF - Revista de Direito da Cidade

IS - 2

ER -