Irit Dekel

Irit Dekel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Irit studies the relations between memory politics, narrative construction, activism and the urban public sphere. Her wider fields of interest are sociology of culture, media, and political sociology.

She is currently writing a book provisionally titled Spheres of Speakability: Experience at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The book focuses on this memorial as a case study in the relationship between political transformation and memory work, analyzing the performative practices used to discuss the implications the history of human rights and minorities in Germany and Europe.