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