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