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