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