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Alexander Ulrich Thygesen

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Assistant Professor, Ph.d.

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Alexander Ulrich Thygesen

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Research

My current research examines activists' engagement in alternative monumental practices during the 2019-2020 Chilean mass mobilisation and the constitutional process it set in motion. I am particularly  interested in how activists reconfigure urban space and how these practices shape memory processes and relate to the creation of collective identities in times of social unrest.

I am currently developing a new project on grassroots resistance to progressive memory politics in Spain, Argentina and Chile.

I serve on the steering committee of the UPAST Memory and Heritage Centre at Aarhus University and co-chair the Memory Studies Association’s Memory and Activism Working Group. I am also a partner in Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies.

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