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 Coloniality of Power • Democratic Confederalism • Intersectional Decolonial Feminisms • Work • Ecocide • Wildfires • Precariousness • Social Precarization • Intersectional alliances and social coalitions • Indigenous theories and practices • Class struggle • Race and Gender • Transnational Capitalist Class • Japan • Industrial Bourgeoisie • Brazilian military dictatorship • Human trafficking • Women’s Liberation • Colonial legacy • Brazilian Indigenous peoples • Inequalities • Indifference • Working class • Biodiversity loss • Fiscal Austerity • Global Capitalism • Pesticides • Colonialism • Kurdish Free Women Movement • Contemporary slave labor • Racism • Consumerism • Inequality • Social Reproduction Theory • Effective citizenship • Schooling • Liquid Modernity • Social reproduction • North-South inequalities • Oppression • Strikes • International Migration • European Union-Mercosur Agreement • Epistemic Racism • Capitalism • Amazon • Labor • Social inequality • Social Inequality • Financialization • General Social Security System • Brasil • Labor Market • Labor market • Structural inequality • Black workers • Race • Working Hours • Jineolojî (Women’s Science) • Assetization of Social Rights • Contributory Benefits • State education • Brazilian Labor Reform • Educational inequality • Food insecurity • Power structures • Brazil • Debt-led Social Policy • Brazilian Capitalism
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/INQ/3035-0395/2026/03 | Published May 21, 2026 | Language en, it
Copyright © Ricardo Antunes, Ricardo Festi, Marco Antonio Gonsales de Oliveira, Luci Praun, Murillo Van Der Laan. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.