1 The struggle for the nation: the rise of the far right and the war on diversity in Brazil 1 Michel Nicolau Netto Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri Sávio Machado Cavalcante (Departamento of Sociology/ University of Campinas) Seminar Paper delivered at: Conservatism and Authoritarianism in Brazil: Histories, Politics, and Cultures - Columbia University, The Return of the Right in Brazil: Politics and Society - Harvard University, and Political narratives and social imaginaries in Brazil: between democracy and right-wing politics - Brown University. February 2020. 1 This paper is part of the research project ‘Liberalism and conservatism in contemporary Brazil: lifestyles, worldviews and ideology of the common man,’ conducted by Sávio Machado Cavalcante, Michel Nicolau Netto and Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri at the Centre for Contemporary Sociology, IFCH/Unicamp.