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