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