Alejandro Baer
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
1133 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Collegiate Affiliation
I am interested in the socio-political consequences of memory narratives and the delicate relationship between processes of collective remembering, reconciliatory initiatives, and the demands of justice in post-conflict or post-authoritarian societies. To what extent are people of the current generation bound by a violent past and the memory of this past? What forms of subjectivity emerge through different memories of atrocity, and what forms of collective action do these memories facilitate or hinder? I also co-organize the Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Group.
Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Habilitation: Sociology, Universität Bayreuth, 2013 -
- Ph.D.: Sociology, Universidad Complutense, 2003 -
- Licenciatura: Sociology / Social Anthropology, Universidad Complutense, 1995 -
Specialties
- Globalization
- Sociology of Media and Communication
- Social Memory Studies
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Antisemitism
- Qualitative Methods
- Visual Sociology
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