Understanding Polarization in Brazil: Inequalities, Differences, Political Choices
暫譯: 理解巴西的極化：不平等、差異與政治選擇
Costa, Sérgio
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2026-05-26
- 售價: $1,820
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,729
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 123
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3032250064
- ISBN-13: 9783032250063
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商品描述
This Open access book explores the connections between everyday life, institutional politics, and social hierarchies that underlie the disputes between progressive forces and the radical right. It studies the case of Brazil, which is especially suggestive, given the particular combination of political choices and variables of class, gender, race, region and religion as well as the different transitions in a short period of time. The book's central thesis is that political choices reflect the potential of different political discourses--whether from the left or the (extreme) right--to articulate sufferings, anxieties, and expectations generated by shifts in peoples' intersectional situation. Starting from this perspective, it studies how both institutional politics and real and virtual everyday spaces have been transformed into arenas where those who have lost or fear losing privileges and positions confront those who have gained or hope to gain new rights and standing within existing hierarchies.
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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本開放存取的書探討了日常生活、制度政治與社會階層之間的聯繫，這些聯繫構成了進步力量與激進右派之間的爭論。它研究了巴西的案例，這特別引人注目，因為巴西在政治選擇和階級、性別、種族、地區及宗教等變數的特定組合，以及在短時間內的不同轉型方面具有獨特性。這本書的核心論點是，政治選擇反映了不同政治話語的潛力——無論是來自左派還是（極端）右派——去表達因人們的交叉情境變化而產生的痛苦、焦慮和期望。從這個角度出發，它研究了制度政治以及現實和虛擬的日常空間如何轉變為一個舞台，在這裡，那些失去或害怕失去特權和地位的人與那些獲得或希望在現有階層中獲得新權利和地位的人對峙。
這本書結合了及時的主題和方法：對社會不平等的批判性研究、資本主義與民主之間的關係、政治行動主義。在政治上，它提供了對極右派進展的全面診斷，並能夠促進進步策略以應對這些威脅。儘管基於前沿的理論辯論，這本書的語言易於理解，適合廣泛的讀者群。
作者簡介
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.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
塞爾吉奧·科斯塔教授（Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa）是柏林自由大學（Freie Universität Berlin）拉丁美洲研究所及社會學研究所的社會學教授。他在巴西和德國接受經濟學和社會學的訓練，並擔任拉丁美洲友好與不平等中心（M.S. Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, Mecila）的主任，還在不同的聯合研究項目中擔任首席研究員，包括德國研究基金會（DFG）研究單位合作及DFG國際研究訓練小組（IRTG）未來的時間性。他的研究重點包括社會不平等、民主理論、種族主義與反種族主義、友好研究以及後殖民理論。他已出版7部專著（其中一些以英語、葡萄牙語、德語和西班牙語等不同語言發表）、數本編輯書籍以及超過130篇學術文章和章節。
