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