Daniel Eduardo Feierstein holds a degree in sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he is currently Head Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, where he has founded the Chair on Genocide Studies, and at the National University of Tres de Febrero, where he has founded and he continue running the Center for Genocide Studies. He was also visiting lecturer at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute and the University of the Republic (Uruguay), as well as the Northeastern University and the National University of Comahue (Argentina), among many others.
During the Buenos Aires (2000-2001) Biennial, he won the City Council's First Prize for Culture in the category of published essays for Six studies on genocide (133 pages). This was his first publication and has run to three editions (Acervo Cultural, 1997; EUDEBA, 2000 and Editores del Puerto, 2008). Since then, he has published numerous essays, articles and essays in Spanish and English.
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 a social practice. From Nazism to Argentina (Fondo de Cultura Económica. 405 pages) in 2007. 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 sentencing Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz and Christian Von Wernich for crimes of genocide.
Daniel Feierstein is a referee and member of the Editorial Committee of two English-language journals - the Journal of Genocide Studies and Prevention (University of Toronto Press) and the Journal of Genocide Research - and he has founded and continue editing the first Spanish-language journal on genocide - Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio since 2007.He also direct the Studies in Genocide series for Editorial Prometeo.
He was director of the Center for Social Studies of DAIA (Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations) in 1999 and 2000 and since then he has directed numerous research projects on 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 elected to the Advisory Board of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) for the period 2007-2009 and he is currently 2nd Vice President of IAGS (2009-2011). 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).

Agradecimientos 9
Introducción. Dos genocidios y un intento de articulación 13
PRIMERA PARTE
Algunas cuestiones teóricas
I. Acerca de las discusiones, definiciones y límites del concepto de genocidio 31
II. Hacia una tipología de las prácticas sociales genocidas 87
III. Las contradicciones de la modernidad y su resolución: igualdad, soberanía, autonomía y prácticas sociales genocidas 111
SEGUNDA PARTE
Hacia un sustento histórico: El genocidio nazi
IV. Unicidad, comparabilidad y narración: apuntes sobre método, teoría y política a propósito del genocidio nazi 145
V. La cuestión de la causalidad en la explicación del genocidio nazi 177
VI. Genocidio y reformulación de las relaciones sociales 207
TERCERA PARTE
Hacia un sustento histórico: Las prácticas sociales genocidas en la Argentina
VII. La cuestión de la causalidad en la explicación de las prácticas sociales genocidas en la Argentina 257
VIII. Hacia una periodización del genocidio desarrollado en la Argentina 307
IX. La lógica concentracionaria 355
A modo de conclusión: Deconstrucció, moral y humanidad. Los usos de la memoria 389
Bibliografía 407
Índice de nombres 435

Truly eye-opening. This book changed my perspective on society and sociology as a whole, and offers incredibly valuable insight into how we can interpret modernity, history, and memory.