Lorenzo D’Orsi is Post-doc research fellow at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policy (IRPPS) at CNR (Italian National Research Council) and lecturer in anthropology of violence at University of Pisa. In 2015 he hold a Phd in social anthropology at Bicocca University of Milan, in 2016 he was Post-doc visiting fellow at the Centre of Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and in 2017 Post-doc researcher at the Institute for Turkish Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He conducted long-term ethnographic investigation in Uruguay and Turkey on processes of collective memory among Leftist groups victims of state violence in the wake of the Cold War. Particularly, his researches focus on the social construction of collective trauma, on the embodied memory of violence, on the intergenerational memory transmission of political violence, on the phenomenological experience of moral outrages, and on new social movement. Theoretically sophisticated, his works contribute to the international debate on memory studies and conflict analysis, on the anthropological understanding of the state and the experience of the political from below. His research interests also include multiculturalism, migration and identity claims in school contexts. Lorenzo has published articles in Italian, English and Spanish. In 2017 he awarded the Best Young Scholar Prize 2017 by the International Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) for his research on the politics of memory of military dictatorship in Uruguay; the same year he received the International Auschwitz Foundation Prize for his investigation on the intergenerational memory transmission of political violence in Turkey.
The analysis of social construction of collective trauma; the social construction of moral outrages; the upraising of new social movements; politics of memory of political violence in Turkey and Uruguay.
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