Alejandro Ayala-Wold is an phd-candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages. He joined the department in august 2022 after obtaining a master’s degree from the University of Oslo, that placed emphasis on the Popular Party and Historical Memory in Spain between 2017 and 2018.

His research lies at the intersection of political communication, political history and developmental politics. Alejandro is highly interested in understanding how rightist parties uses historical memory to legitimate their political projects; how the radical-right polarizes european politics; ow ongoing worldwide crises have shifted the developmental attention away from Latin-America; and how natural resource extraction affects small-scale municipalities on the Dominican Republic.

His doctoral project consists of analyzing hundred political discourses in the period 2017-2023 made by the conservative Popular Party and radical-right party Vox, with the objective to establish and compare the polarizing tenets in their memory discourse, and how this has contributed to the appearance of new dicthonomies. 

Alejandro has background as a high-school teacher in Norway. Teaching history, Social sciences and Spanish.

At UiB, he teaches two courses:

SPLA106: 'History, Culture and Society in Spain' introductionary examination of important modern day events that influences Spain. Ranging from historical memory, progressivism, the radical right, and feminism.

SPLA109: 'Latin American History' aming to provide overview of important historical events and developments. The course is thought with a historical approach, and this gives students thematic insight to contemporary issues, which are relevant for present day politics, economy and society in the region.

 

2024

• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Leonor. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Spanias politiske system. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Spania - arbeidsledighet. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Slaget ved Trafalgar. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Alcázar. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Medier i Spania. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Izquierda Unida. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Condorlegionen. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Karl 2. - konge av Spania. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Ferdinand den 5. "den katolske". (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). El Cid. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Podemos. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Det politiske spillet om flommen. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2024). Urix: 13. november · Hvorfor ble de så rasende på kongen?. (external link)

2023

• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Internasjonale brigader. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Den spanske inkvisisjonen. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Tordesillas-avtalen. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). José Ortega y Gasset. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Falangen - fascistorganisasjon. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Pedro Sánchez . (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Partido Popular. (external link)
• Ayala-Wold, Alejandro (2023). Fascismens masoleum. (external link)
• Søreng-Wold, Alejandro Ayala (2023). "Går Spania mot høyre?" https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2023-06-14/gar-spania-mot-hoyre. (external link)
• Wold, Alejandro Ayala; Imsen, Steinar (2023). Isabella den katolske. (external link)
• Wold, Alejandro Ayala; Knutsen, Gunnar Winsnes (2023). Den spanske borgerkrigen. (external link)
• Søreng-Wold, Alejandro Ayala (2023). Vox (politisk parti). (external link)
• Søreng-Wold, Alejandro Ayala ; Aarli, Gunn; Cardozo, Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss (2023). Francisco Franco. (external link)
• Birkeland, Ingebjørg; Søreng-Wold, Alejandro Ayala (2023). Miguel Primo de Rivera. (external link)

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