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The explanations for political preferences for the far right in Brazil and Germany share similar shortcomings. They tend to be monocausal, emphasizing either economic, ideological, or cultural factors. To overcome this limitation, Prof. Costa presents in the lecture a more general analytical framework that links political choices to changes in the intersectional situations of voters in both countries. Next, he examines the recent processes of disorder and reordering of social hierarchies in Germany and Brazil to highlight how upward or downward intersectional mobility helps explain political choices for the far right in both cases.

Sérgio Costa is a professor of sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and director of Mecila (M. S. Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America). His most recent books include: Desiguais e Divididos (Unequal and Divided), Ed. Todavia, 2025; Um Porto no Capitalismo Global (A Port in Global Capitalism), Ed. Boitempo and Routledge, 2020, co-authored with Guilherme L. Gonçalves; “Repensar las Desigualdades” (Rethinking Inequalities), Ed. Siglo XXI, 2020, co-edited with Elizabeth Jelin and Renata Motta, and “Entre el Atlántico e el Pacífico Negro” (Between the Atlantic and the Black Pacific), co-authored with M. Góngora and R. Vera, Vervuert 2019, winner of the 2020 LASA Ibero-American Award.