In this presentation, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez will focus on the Maya genocide in Guatemala to explore (1) the relationship between excess mortality and the lived experience of kin loss, and (2) the implications of demographic change for preserving a memory of the genocide. He explores these two processes using a unique genealogical database that records the complete demographic history of Rio Negro, a genocide-affected population in Guatemala, between 1982 and 2015. One-third of the population were massacred, but two-thirds of the survivors were left bereaved. You can read Dr. Alburez-Gutierrez's paper here
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez is a social scientist based at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. His PhD dissertation (London School of Economics, 2019) focused on the demographic effects of genocide in Guatemala. His current focus is on the exposure to mortality and the availability of family resources over the life-course of individuals. His work combines empirical analysis, mathematical modeling, and demographic micro-simulation to study these inter-generational processes. More: http://alburez.me/
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