Inequalities in Brazil
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Ricardo Antunes - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) - email
- Ricardo Festi - Universidade de Brasília - email
- Marco Antonio Gonsales de Oliveira - IFCH-Unicamp - email
- Luci Praun - Universidade Federal do Acre - email
- Murillo Van Der Laan - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) - email
With its colonial past and deep historical disparities, present-day Brazil presents – despite robust economic development and GDP growth over the last two decades – profound and new inequalities that permeate every sphere of social life. After examining the historical roots of inequality (in four articles), this issue of Inequalities focuses on various forms and dimensions of inequality in contemporary Brazil through eight articles. These address disparities in income and wealth, labor, social rights and welfare, education, race, gender, as well as environmental and spatial factors. The miscellaneous section of this issue features an article on gender inequality, jineology, and the Kurdish women’s movement, alongside a contribution on Bauman and inequalities.
Keywords Brazilian Capitalism • Brazil • Ecocide • International Migration • Kurdish Free Women Movement • Coloniality of Power • Effective citizenship • Social reproduction • Intersectional alliances and social coalitions • Strikes • Black workers • Social Reproduction Theory • Debt-led Social Policy • Epistemic Racism • Educational inequality • Precariousness • Consumerism • Global Capitalism • Japan • Pesticides • Democratic Confederalism • Human trafficking • Wildfires • Food insecurity • Working class • Assetization of Social Rights • Class struggle • Contributory Benefits • Racism • Inequality • Labor market • European Union-Mercosur Agreement • Women’s Liberation • Industrial Bourgeoisie • Intersectional Decolonial Feminisms • Labor Market • Work • Brazilian military dictatorship • Inequalities • Contemporary slave labor • Labor • Colonial legacy • Power structures • Race • Brasil • Race and Gender • Social Inequality • Social inequality • Social Precarization • Transnational Capitalist Class • Fiscal Austerity • Working Hours • Biodiversity loss • Jineolojî (Women’s Science) • Capitalism • Brazilian Labor Reform • Oppression • Structural inequality • Indigenous theories and practices • North-South inequalities • Amazon • General Social Security System • Colonialism • Liquid Modernity • Financialization • Indifference • Brazilian Indigenous peoples • State education • Schooling
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/INQ/3035-0395/2026/03 | Published May 21, 2026 | Language en, it
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