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