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