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 Inequalities • Kurdish Free Women Movement • Structural inequality • Debt-led Social Policy • Biodiversity loss • Intersectional Decolonial Feminisms • Brazilian Labor Reform • Global Capitalism • Human trafficking • Labor market • Social Precarization • Transnational Capitalist Class • Consumerism • Brazilian Indigenous peoples • Brazilian Capitalism • Amazon • Effective citizenship • Labor Market • Intersectional alliances and social coalitions • Pesticides • Japan • Black workers • Power structures • Racism • Race • Women’s Liberation • Indifference • North-South inequalities • Work • Assetization of Social Rights • Brasil • Oppression • Food insecurity • State education • Contemporary slave labor • Capitalism • Financialization • Social Reproduction Theory • European Union-Mercosur Agreement • General Social Security System • Strikes • Race and Gender • Working class • Wildfires • Democratic Confederalism • Jineolojî (Women’s Science) • Coloniality of Power • Colonialism • Colonial legacy • Industrial Bourgeoisie • Labor • Epistemic Racism • Liquid Modernity • Working Hours • Social reproduction • Contributory Benefits • Precariousness • Social inequality • Fiscal Austerity • Educational inequality • Inequality • Schooling • International Migration • Brazil • Ecocide • Indigenous theories and practices • Social Inequality • Brazilian military dictatorship • Class struggle
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/INQ/3035-0395/2026/03 | Published May 21, 2026 | Language en, it
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