Researchers

Public Manager from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (GPDES/UFRJ), Urban and Regional Planner from the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Research (IPPUR/UFRJ), and PhD candidate in Geography and Urban Planning at Queen’s University, Canada.

User researches the processes of financialization and privatization of infrastructure in Brazil, with a focus on emancipatory infrastructures, particularly in basic sanitation. Using feminist political economy, their aim is to understand the relationship between the Brazilian state and international investment funds in creating new water markets in the country, and how these privatized markets impact the daily lives of people, especially in regions where water is scarce. They are also interested in the geographies of abolition, governance in the Global South, studies on the Black population, social infrastructure, social justice, and wastewater surveillance.

Palavras-chave: basic sanitation, Financialization, infrastructures, Neoliberalization, Urban-regional planning