Daniel Feierstein

Daniel Eduardo Feierstein holds a degree in sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is currently Head Professor at the Chair of Genocide, University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of Tres de Febrero, where he has founded the Center for Genocide Studies.

Feierstein won the Buenos Aires City Council's First Prize for Culture in the category of Essay for Six studies on genocide (133 pages). This was his first publication and has three editions (Acervo Cultural, 1997; EUDEBA, 2000 and Editores del Puerto, 2008). Since then, he has published numerous books, and articles.

After receiving a scholarship from the University of Buenos Aires to complete his PhD (2003-2006), he published his first full-length book Genocide as Social practice (Fondo de Cultura Económica. 405 pages) in 2007 (translated to French in 2012 as Genocide comme Pratique Sociale by Metispresses and to English in 2014 by Rutgers University Press).

In 2012 he has published the first volume of the trilogy Working through genocide under the title "Memorias y Representaciones" (Memories and Representations). The second volume was published in 2015 under the title "Juicios" (Judgments).

He has also contributed chapters to various influential books on genocide. His analysis of the concept of genocide and of events in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 contained in these works has been cited by several Argentine trial judges, in particular, in several sentences to qualify the repressive policies happened in Argentina during the 70s as genocide.

In 2008 he became Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), a government agency which directs and co-ordinates most of the scientific and technical research done at Argentine public universities.

He was also co-author of Argentina's National Plan against Discrimination (2005) and he helped to draft Argentina's National Human Rights Plan (2009). In both cases, he was hired as an independent consultant by the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (UNHCHR).

Daniel Feierstein was the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in the period 2013-2015.

During the pandemic, Feierstein assesed several governmental Councils in Argentina and inter-disciplinary groups trying to deal with the crisis of the COVID-19. The book Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 crisis analyzes this experience and the different consequences of the pandemic in social bonds and social representations.