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