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