Understanding Polarization in Brazil: Inequalities, Differences, Political Choices
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The book combines timely themes and approaches: critical research on social inequalities, relations between capitalism and democracy, political activism. Politically, it presents a comprehensive diagnosis of the advance of the far right and can contribute to nurturing progressive strategies to react to these threats. Although based on cutting-edge theoretical debates, the book is written in easily accessible language that can be understood by a broad readership.
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About the author
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies and the the Institute of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin. Trained in economics and sociology in Brazil and Germany, he also chairs the M.S. Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila) and serves as a Principal Investigator in different joint research projects, including the DFG Research Unity Collaborations and the DFG International Research Training Group (IRTG) Temporalities of Future. His research focuses on social inequalities, democratic theory, racism and anti-racism, conviviality studies, and postcolonial theory. He has published 7 monographs (some of them appeared in different languages including English, Portuguese, German, and Spanish), several edited volumes and more than 130 academic articles and chapters.
