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