PhD Candidate

Associate Tutor

  (PhD)

  (Teaching)

Profile

Rafael da Costa is a PhD candidate (PAIS Overseas Scholarship) and Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick. He has an MSc in Political Science and a BA in History from the University of São Paulo - USP. Rafael's research interests include International Political Economy, Green Energy Transition, Business-Government interactions, and the internal dynamics of the BRICS. However, he also has past published work on how Critical Race Theory can inform Brazilian Political Economy debates. He is in the first year of his PhD project.

Rafael is also a member of the Pensamento e Politica no Brasil research group at USP.

Thesis

The Rising Semi-Periphery: the Brazilian Electric System Green Transition Dilemma

Supervised by Dr Caroline Kuzemko and Dr Tom Long

Teaching

Rafael is an Associate Tutor on the module PO107 - Introduction to Politics. Students seeking advice and feedback hours should use the above teaching email.

Publications

Da Costa, R. da S. (2023). Quem sair por último, apague as luzes: a Confederação Nacional da Indústria no golpe parlamentar de 2016 [Last one out, turn off the lights: the role of the National Confederation of Industry in the 2016 parliamentary coup]. São Paulo: Dialética.

Da Costa, R. da S. (2022). A recomposição da hierarquia racial brasileira do trabalho (2002-2015): evento de consequência imprevista [The Brazilian Job Market Racial Hierarchy Reconfiguration (2002-2015): An Event with Unforeseen Consequences]. In: Ricupero, R., Amorim, J. A., and Mendonça, M. Balanço e desafios no bicentenário da independência [Evaluation and challenges on indepedence’s bicentennial]. São Paulo: Edusp.