Abstract

OJEDA OJEDA, Diana Carolina. Property’s blind spot: Gender, land and dispossession in Latin America. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2022, n.81, pp.106-131.  Epub Jan 01, 2022. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.81.2022.812.

The relationship between gender and land has been widely addressed by scholars, as well as by social movements, multilateral organizations and NGOs. Despite this prevalence of gender in knowledge production and public policy in relation to natural resources, much of the literature has focused on property as a mechanism to guarantee women’s access to land. In this article, I inquire about what is left outside property. In dialogue with Feminist Political Ecology and drawing from a critical literature review, I argue that the production of land as a feminized object and of masculine subjects as those capable of owning it and managing it excludes spaces and practices of social reproduction. I refer to this exclusion as property’s blind spot and suggest the need to overcome it in order to contribute to destabilizing the dynamics of continued dispossession in the region.

Keywords : gender; land; property; dispossession; Latin America.

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