Memory Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Memory Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?21
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania20
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter19
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city18
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory17
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past16
Memory and time in early Quakerism16
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?15
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory15
The art of memory activism in the global South14
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey14
Book review: Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the Next Generation IrakozeClaverSinaloCaroline Williamson. Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From12
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum12
The digital turn in memory studies11
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic11
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong10
Unnaming buildings10
Mobilizing MSA Forward10
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe10
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile10
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue9
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut8
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm8
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan8
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide8
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work8
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina8
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa AdebayoSakiru. Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 20237
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-197
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform6
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women6
Book Review: Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories BarndtKerstinJaegerStephan (eds). Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 367 pp., $140.00. ISBN: 9783110787405.6
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum6
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice6
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20235
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin5
Book Review: ESMA. Represión y poder en el centro clandestino de detención más emblemático de la última dictadura argentina Marina Franco and Claudia Feld (dir) FrancoMa5
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico5
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War5
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism5
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries5
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising5
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance5
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)5
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea4
Book Review: Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh, Walderez Ramalho, and Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (eds)<4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials4
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state socialist and post-war Kosovo4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study4
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations Rituparna Roy, Jayanta Sengupta, and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (eds) RoyRituparnaSengupta4
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging3
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”3
Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China3
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia3
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state3
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey3
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police3
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence3
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile2
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)2
Democratizing memory and the question of Black difference in Brazil (ca. 1980–1988): The transformation of the Serra da Barriga (Alagoas), from haunted “Black territory” to national memorial in the tr2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-192
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements2
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”: Decolonial memory activists and the duty to remember in postcolonial Belgium (2010–present)2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro2
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic2
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases2
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond 2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration2
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor2
Trans theoretical approaches to memory and relatedness: Potentials and suggestions at the intersections of transgender studies and queer studies1
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia1
Book review: Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel1
Beyond the “memory wars”: Teaching the next generation of Korean and Japanese students1
Book review: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present Christina Koulouri1
The construction of family memory through activist engagement: The case of relatives of the disappeared in Spain1
Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center1
Book review: The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
The (de)tours of memory: Strategies and tactics of memory at Argentina’s Parque de la Memoria1
Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity1
A microphone in a chandelier: How a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect1
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing1
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia1
Community heritage activism in the American South: Black counter-reenactments as mnemonic restitution1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges1
‘Comfort women must fall’? Japanese governmental responses to ‘comfort women’ statues around the world1
Online battles of spectacles over monuments: Reversed perspectives on pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian Telegram channels1
Resounding resistance: Decolonising memory through Johannesburg’s sound art narratives1
When the past meets the present: The role of memory sites in time of crisis in Chile1
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories1
Enacting memories through and with things: Remembering as material engagement1
Social fields, journalism, and collective memory: Reporting on the Armenian genocide in legal, political, and commemorative field events1
Postmemory and documentary aesthetics in the digital age: Two Doors (2012) and Kim-Gun (2018)1
The shift in the regime of silence: Selective erasure of the 1965 massacre in post-New Order Indonesia’s official narrative1
The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and claims for recognition of atrocities: The nominations of Documents of Nanjing Massacre and Voices of the ‘Comfort Women’1
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space1
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation1
Memory, crisis and democracy in Africa1
Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic1
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies1
Book review: The Visual Memory of Protest Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits (eds)1
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil1
Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times1
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa1
Beyond presentism: Memory studies, deep history and the challenges of transmission1
An Instituting Archive for Memory Activism: The Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina1
Post-war memories and silences within families: Why micro hesitations matter1
Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance1
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century1
Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women1
Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–19601
Book reviews: De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria. La práctica monumental como escritura de la historia [From mass graves to places of memory. Monument practice as writing of history] Daniel Pala1
Book Review: Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities Donald R Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don M Tucker1
Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives1
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory1
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum1
Legacies of a martial race: Sikh investment and implication in the US police state1
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy1
Book review: Diaspora as Translation and Decolonization Ipek Demir1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective1
Constructing, reconstructing and representing communities: Polish and Ukrainian memory activists from displaced person camps in Western Germany and Austria after the Second World War1
El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia1
Mnemonic interventions: Memory and transitional justice at a Uruguayan prison-mall1
Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai1
Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş1
Book Review: Exploring Cinema Memory Annette Kuhn1
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time1
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes1
Addressing a difficult past in South Korea: Was Cheju 4.3 a genocide?1
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory1
Book Review: Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum. Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin BuchczykMagdalena. Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum. Textiles, history1
Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars1
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience1
Book Review: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951–19771
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise1
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand1
Perceived societal anomie and the implicit trajectory of national decline: Replicating and extending Yamashiro and Roediger (2019) within a French sample1
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work1
Book review: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis1
Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema1
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike1
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India1
Clarifying dissenting voices: Exploring the ambivalence around the Canadian national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls1
The crisis of Confederate memory in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil1
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina1
Disappearances, dissident memory and magic: Sandya Ekneligoda’s struggle for justice0
The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization0
Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians0
Book Review: France’s Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des Milles FuggleSophie. France’s Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des Milles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023, $130. ISBN: 9780
Remembering activism: Means and ends0
Book review: Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory BastianJeannette A. Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory.London: Routl0
The consequences of Apathy: How Nyayo House becomes an actor for intergenerational solidarity amid the absence of state justice in Kenya0
Theuth, Thamus, and digital civics: Plato’s formulation of memory and its lessons for civic life in the digital age0
Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory0
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney0
Living in history and by the cultural life script: What events modulate autobiographical memory organization in a sample of older adults from Romania?0
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences: Memory studies, Vietnamese studies, and diasporic Vietnamese studies0
Libyan deportees on the Italian island of Ustica: Remembering colonial deportations in the (peripheral) metropole0
Fake news and fading views: A vanishing archive of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre0
Homey foods: Domesticating memories of the martial-law era in Taiwan’s heritage tourism0
Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects0
Memory and Crisis: An Introduction0
Memori melompat (‘jumping memory’): The mnemonic motion of Indonesian popular culture and the need for a local reframing0
Irish rEUnification? Post-Brexit futures of nostalgia and nostophobia among the Irish diaspora0
Narrating the revolution: Towards slow memory in Egyptian fiction0
Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes0
Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings0
Memories, piety and formation of civil religions: Do revolutionary youth sing along with the memory machine in Iran?0
Unusual times: Remembering Turkey’s long sixties0
Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective0
Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram0
Centenaries, museum audiences and discourses of commemoration: Remembering the First World War 2014–20180
Transnational therapeutic memories: Remembering forced migration in documentary film0
Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda0
Mnemonic wars and parallel polis: The anti-politics of memory in Central and Southeast Europe: Kosovar women and Black/Roma Lives Matter0
Of benches and rubble: The aesthetics of difficult memory in two South African museums0
Memory in action: Reflections on multidirectionality’s possibilities in the classroom0
The past as a teacher for the present? Discursive connections between Nazi persecution of Roma and discrimination in the present0
The possibility of being a Jew: An autoethnographic journey from shattered memory to the memorial body0
Epilogue: An assured disclosure of uncertainty0
Representing evidence0
The ‘sites of oblivion’: How not to remember in a world of reminders0
Talk about the Past0
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics0
Book review: Road Scars: Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma0
Viral Camus: Mapping cultural memory in the Covid era0
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