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