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