Daniel Feierstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1668895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Feierstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Feierstein |
| SIGNATURE | FEIERSTEIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7215-3335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neofascism and the Erosion of Normativity Subjectivation and Political Identity in the 21st Century
This article proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the contemporary emergence of neofascist forms of political identification. While much of the literature on democratic erosion has emphasised concepts like populism, institutional decline, or leadership dynamics, the sociological processes that render subjects receptive to neofascist identification remain insufficiently theorised. The article argues that these processes are linked to a b…
The Meaning of Concepts
The article analyses the different concepts used to conceptualise State Crimes (politicide, massacre, State Terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity) in order to explore the theoretical advantages and disadvantages in comparison with the concept of genocide. The article highlights the conceptual problems of the different terms and the theoretical strength of the concept of genocide when compared with any of the other possibilities
Representations of the Covid-19 Crisis in Argentina
The initial search for a strategy to contain the COVID-19 in Argentina took place in a context of political agreements and strong social support. However, this climate of cooperation and consensus was short-lived, and the authorities were soon forced to turn to mitigation strategies. Emotional and ethical-moral considerations gradually displaced a rational, scientific approach to fighting the pandemic, and social representations of it became incr…
Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
Over the last decades, Genocide Studies has entered in a “comfort zone.” With fellowships and support from governments or NGOs, we have developed a very comfortable environment in which the knowledge we produce about genocide prevention is neither critical nor useful. We have become trapped by assumptions we have never checked against reality and many of us have chosen to work inside the circle of those assumptions: genocide and mass violence are…
El concepto de genocidio y la “destrucción parcial de los grupos nacionales” Algunas reflexiones sobre las consecuencias del derecho penal en la política internacional y en los procesos de memoria
This article explores the different juridical interpretations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and its impact on the collective memory building of societies that have undergone the historical experience of massive State terror. It analyzes the international jurisprudence vis-à-vis national jurisprudences -particularly in the case of Argentina, but also with regards to Bangladesh, Cambodia and Colombia-. …
Debates on the Criminology of Genocide
This article analyses different criminological approaches to modern genocide. It starts from a critical review of authors (René Girard, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, and Alejandro Alagia) who explain genocide in terms of sacrificial violence; it contrasts these perspectives with Jean Piaget's empirically based distinction between two kinds of social relations: relations of constraint and relations of cooperation, and the different sanctions pertaining …
El carácter genocida del Proceso de Reorganización Nacional
El trabajo se propone analizar críticamente los procesos de construcción de la memoria colectiva de las prácticas sociales genocidas y sus efectos en la posibilidad de restablecer los lazos sociales quebrados por el terror y el exterminio. De este modo, se sugiere que analizar el carácter genocida de la última dictadura militar, en tanto intención de destrucción parcial del grupo nacional argentino, puede permitir un trabajo de apropiación de sus…
National Security Doctrine in Latin America
During the second half of the twentieth century, large sections of the population were exterminated in various parts of Latin America. Most of these events followed a similar pattern and were the result of what became known as the National Security Doctrine. The practice of systematic annihilation of political enemies in Latin America, which began as early as 1954 with the military coup in Guatemala, continued almost until the beginning of the tw…
The Good, the Bad, and the Invisible
Leaving the Parental Home
This article examines current developments in genocide studies, focusing specifically on three main areas of conflict and debate between different perspectives: the question of how to define genocide, causal models and comparative studies, and prevention. Further, this article presents an analysis of Eurocentrism in the field, arguing that genocide studies needs a broader scope to include new and unique perspectives from all areas of the world. W…
State Violence and Genocide in Latin America
Introduction: Globalizing Latin American Studies of State Violence and Genocide Marcia Esparza Part 1: The Roots and Theoretical Underpinnings 1. U.S. Hemispheric Hegemony and the Descent into Genocidal Practices in Latin America Luis Roniger 2. Political Violence in Argentina and its Genocidal Characteristics Daniel Feierstein 3. Genocide in Chile: An Assessment Maureen S. Hiebert and Pablo Policzer 4. Understanding the 1982 Guatemalan Genocide …
Getting Things into Perspective
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
From the guest editors
Political violence in Argentina and its genocidal characteristics
of the problem The purpose of this article is to examine the question of whether it is legally and sociologically appropriate to use the term “genocide” to designate the events of repressive violence which took place in Latin America under the Doctrine of National Security and, particularly in this study, to designate as genocide the repressive events which occurred in the Republic of Argentina between 1974 and 1983. Although the main objective i…
Sobre los conceptos y sus consecuencias sobre la identidad
The debate on the different concepts to nominate or qualify the systematic annihilation of human groups (genocide, war, State Terrorism, crimes against humanity) has influenced the juridical, scholar and political fields, producing different consequences in the possibilities to appropriate or alienate the historical experience. Focusing in the Argentinian case, the work discusses the ethical and political consequences in the uses of such differen…
El concepto de genocidio y la “destrucción parcial de los grupos nacionales” Algunas reflexiones sobre las consecuencias del derecho penal en la política internacional y en los procesos de memoria
This article explores the different juridical interpretations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and its impact on the collective memory building of societies that have undergone the historical experience of massive State terror. It analyzes the international jurisprudence vis-à-vis national jurisprudences -particularly in the case of Argentina, but also with regards to Bangladesh, Cambodia and Colombia-. …
Debates on the Criminology of Genocide
This article analyses different criminological approaches to modern genocide. It starts from a critical review of authors (René Girard, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, and Alejandro Alagia) who explain genocide in terms of sacrificial violence; it contrasts these perspectives with Jean Piaget's empirically based distinction between two kinds of social relations: relations of constraint and relations of cooperation, and the different sanctions pertaining …
Sobre los conceptos y sus consecuencias sobre la identidad
The debate on the different concepts to nominate or qualify the systematic annihilation of human groups (genocide, war, State Terrorism, crimes against humanity) has influenced the juridical, scholar and political fields, producing different consequences in the possibilities to appropriate or alienate the historical experience. Focusing in the Argentinian case, the work discusses the ethical and political consequences in the uses of such differen…
Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
Over the last decades, Genocide Studies has entered in a “comfort zone.” With fellowships and support from governments or NGOs, we have developed a very comfortable environment in which the knowledge we produce about genocide prevention is neither critical nor useful. We have become trapped by assumptions we have never checked against reality and many of us have chosen to work inside the circle of those assumptions: genocide and mass violence are…
Political violence in Argentina and its genocidal characteristics
of the problem The purpose of this article is to examine the question of whether it is legally and sociologically appropriate to use the term “genocide” to designate the events of repressive violence which took place in Latin America under the Doctrine of National Security and, particularly in this study, to designate as genocide the repressive events which occurred in the Republic of Argentina between 1974 and 1983. Although the main objective i…
Sobre los conceptos y sus consecuencias sobre la identidad
The debate on the different concepts to nominate or qualify the systematic annihilation of human groups (genocide, war, State Terrorism, crimes against humanity) has influenced the juridical, scholar and political fields, producing different consequences in the possibilities to appropriate or alienate the historical experience. Focusing in the Argentinian case, the work discusses the ethical and political consequences in the uses of such differen…
From the guest editors
Political violence in Argentina and its genocidal characteristics
of the problem The purpose of this article is to examine the question of whether it is legally and sociologically appropriate to use the term “genocide” to designate the events of repressive violence which took place in Latin America under the Doctrine of National Security and, particularly in this study, to designate as genocide the repressive events which occurred in the Republic of Argentina between 1974 and 1983. Although the main objective i…
State Violence and Genocide in Latin America
Introduction: Globalizing Latin American Studies of State Violence and Genocide Marcia Esparza Part 1: The Roots and Theoretical Underpinnings 1. U.S. Hemispheric Hegemony and the Descent into Genocidal Practices in Latin America Luis Roniger 2. Political Violence in Argentina and its Genocidal Characteristics Daniel Feierstein 3. Genocide in Chile: An Assessment Maureen S. Hiebert and Pablo Policzer 4. Understanding the 1982 Guatemalan Genocide …
Getting Things into Perspective
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The Good, the Bad, and the Invisible
Leaving the Parental Home
This article examines current developments in genocide studies, focusing specifically on three main areas of conflict and debate between different perspectives: the question of how to define genocide, causal models and comparative studies, and prevention. Further, this article presents an analysis of Eurocentrism in the field, arguing that genocide studies needs a broader scope to include new and unique perspectives from all areas of the world. W…
National Security Doctrine in Latin America
During the second half of the twentieth century, large sections of the population were exterminated in various parts of Latin America. Most of these events followed a similar pattern and were the result of what became known as the National Security Doctrine. The practice of systematic annihilation of political enemies in Latin America, which began as early as 1954 with the military coup in Guatemala, continued almost until the beginning of the tw…
Debates on the Criminology of Genocide
This article analyses different criminological approaches to modern genocide. It starts from a critical review of authors (René Girard, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, and Alejandro Alagia) who explain genocide in terms of sacrificial violence; it contrasts these perspectives with Jean Piaget's empirically based distinction between two kinds of social relations: relations of constraint and relations of cooperation, and the different sanctions pertaining …
El carácter genocida del Proceso de Reorganización Nacional
El trabajo se propone analizar críticamente los procesos de construcción de la memoria colectiva de las prácticas sociales genocidas y sus efectos en la posibilidad de restablecer los lazos sociales quebrados por el terror y el exterminio. De este modo, se sugiere que analizar el carácter genocida de la última dictadura militar, en tanto intención de destrucción parcial del grupo nacional argentino, puede permitir un trabajo de apropiación de sus…
El concepto de genocidio y la “destrucción parcial de los grupos nacionales” Algunas reflexiones sobre las consecuencias del derecho penal en la política internacional y en los procesos de memoria
This article explores the different juridical interpretations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and its impact on the collective memory building of societies that have undergone the historical experience of massive State terror. It analyzes the international jurisprudence vis-à-vis national jurisprudences -particularly in the case of Argentina, but also with regards to Bangladesh, Cambodia and Colombia-. …
Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
Over the last decades, Genocide Studies has entered in a “comfort zone.” With fellowships and support from governments or NGOs, we have developed a very comfortable environment in which the knowledge we produce about genocide prevention is neither critical nor useful. We have become trapped by assumptions we have never checked against reality and many of us have chosen to work inside the circle of those assumptions: genocide and mass violence are…
The Meaning of Concepts
The article analyses the different concepts used to conceptualise State Crimes (politicide, massacre, State Terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity) in order to explore the theoretical advantages and disadvantages in comparison with the concept of genocide. The article highlights the conceptual problems of the different terms and the theoretical strength of the concept of genocide when compared with any of the other possibilities
Representations of the Covid-19 Crisis in Argentina
The initial search for a strategy to contain the COVID-19 in Argentina took place in a context of political agreements and strong social support. However, this climate of cooperation and consensus was short-lived, and the authorities were soon forced to turn to mitigation strategies. Emotional and ethical-moral considerations gradually displaced a rational, scientific approach to fighting the pandemic, and social representations of it became incr…
Neofascism and the Erosion of Normativity Subjectivation and Political Identity in the 21st Century
This article proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the contemporary emergence of neofascist forms of political identification. While much of the literature on democratic erosion has emphasised concepts like populism, institutional decline, or leadership dynamics, the sociological processes that render subjects receptive to neofascist identification remain insufficiently theorised. The article argues that these processes are linked to a b…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Genocide (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)