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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city36
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic25
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum16
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past16
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory16
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?15
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter15
The digital turn in memory studies13
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia12
Memorials’ politics: Exploring the material rhetoric of the Statue of Peace12
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women12
Memory and time in early Quakerism12
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory12
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue10
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial10
Remembering forgotten heroes and the idealisation of true love: Veteran memorial activism in contemporary China10
Mobilizing MSA Forward10
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong9
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile9
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan9
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa8
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-198
Unnaming buildings8
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide7
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut7
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe7
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm7
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20236
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance6
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia6
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice6
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade6
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum6
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising5
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform5
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory4
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance4
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico4
‘We’re equal to the Jews who were destroyed. [. . .] Compensate us, too’. An affective (un)remembering of Germany’s colonial past?4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory4
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action4
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories4
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?3
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham3
Sacred memory, creole orientalism and India in the plantationscape of Mauritius3
Book review3
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”3
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments3
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging3
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies3
Reflexive ethnography of Poland’s non-memory about Jews and the Holocaust: Revisiting fieldwork, revising assumptions3
Non-forgetfulness and forgetfulness 忘 (wang) in ancient Chinese philosophical texts3
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast3
Promnesic futures: Technology, climate, déjà vu2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism2
Book review: Remembering Asia’s World War Two2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal2
Post-memory and the third generation’s inheritance of the Indian partition (1947): A comparative study of the linguistic register across spatial axes2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees2
A politics of placelessness? The limits of democratising memory in the Centro de Documentación e Investigación of Lima’s Lugar de la Memoria2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-192
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration2
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
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory2
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists2
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research2
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory2
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film2
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema2
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation1
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing1
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India1
“Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction1
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
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
Mnemonic interventions: Memory and transitional justice at a Uruguayan prison-mall1
Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center1
Decolonizing Flanders fields: Flemish Great War commemoration and the agency of literature1
Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
Putting metaphor centre-stage: A case study of Alison Landsberg’s ‘Prosthetic Memory’1
Book review: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present Christina Koulouri1
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand1
The (de)tours of memory: Strategies and tactics of memory at Argentina’s Parque de la Memoria1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women1
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience1
Digital productions in the 50 years of the 1964’s coup d’état: Multimedia special issues in Brazilian journalistic websites1
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil1
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
The place of data: Mobile media, loss and data in life, death and afterlife1
Remembering terrorist attacks: Evolution over time1
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges1
Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş1
Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema1
Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective1
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work1
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich1
Latency in Lebanon, or bringing things (back) to life: A Perfect Day (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2005)1
Memory, crisis and democracy in Africa1
The construction of family memory through activist engagement: The case of relatives of the disappeared in Spain1
Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars1
Book review: The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights1
Book Review: Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities Donald R Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don M Tucker1
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes1
An Instituting Archive for Memory Activism: The Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina1
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy1
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory1
Book Review: Exploring Cinema Memory Annette Kuhn1
Gendering arctic memory: Understanding the legacy of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary1
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies1
Memory and far-right historiography: The case of the Christchurch shooter1
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia1
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia1
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa1
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space1
Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times1
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise1
Fue el estado (‘It was the state’): Embodied practices of memory and the re-writing of Mexico’s genealogy of violence1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
Perceived societal anomie and the implicit trajectory of national decline: Replicating and extending Yamashiro and Roediger (2019) within a French sample1
Book Review: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951–19771
Book review: Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel1
Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai1
Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women1
Book review: The Visual Memory of Protest Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits (eds)1
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
Beyond presentism: Memory studies, deep history and the challenges of transmission1
‘Comfort women must fall’? Japanese governmental responses to ‘comfort women’ statues around the world1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
A microphone in a chandelier: How a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect1
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina1
Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity1
Vernacular de-commemoration: How collectives reckon with the past in the present0
Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue0
Reconstructing the ‘Reconquista’: Students’ negotiation of a Spanish master narrative0
Lubyanka: Dissonant memories of violence in the heart of Moscow0
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences: Memory studies, Vietnamese studies, and diasporic Vietnamese studies0
Book review: The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics Noam Tirosh and Anna Reading (eds)0
Book review: Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda David Mwambari0
Centenaries, museum audiences and discourses of commemoration: Remembering the First World War 2014–20180
Memory laws, mnemonic weapons: The diffusion of a norm across Europe and beyond0
Refracting implication: The question of silence in (A)pollonia0
Travelling and multiscaler memory: Remembering East Timor’s Santa Cruz massacre from the transnational to the intimate0
Memory and Crisis: An Introduction0
‘We did commit these crimes’: Post-Ottoman solidarities, contested places and Kurdish apology for the Armenian Genocide on Web 2.00
Theuth, Thamus, and digital civics: Plato’s formulation of memory and its lessons for civic life in the digital age0
Selfies in Auschwitz: Popular and contested representations in a digital generation0
Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory0
Remembering activism: Means and ends0
Libyan deportees on the Italian island of Ustica: Remembering colonial deportations in the (peripheral) metropole0
Streaming media and the dynamics of remembering and forgetting: The Chernobyl case0
Homey foods: Domesticating memories of the martial-law era in Taiwan’s heritage tourism0
Affordances of memorability: Finnish reception of the oppression of Ingrian Finns in the Soviet Union0
Mnemonic wars and parallel polis: The anti-politics of memory in Central and Southeast Europe: Kosovar women and Black/Roma Lives Matter0
The ‘sites of oblivion’: How not to remember in a world of reminders0
‘The primitive accumulation of capital and memory’: Mnemonic wars as national reconciliation discourse in (post-)Yugoslavia0
Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda0
Dangerous remembering in volatile spaces: Activist memory work in the Iranian context0
Between remembrance and knowledge: The Spanish Flu, COVID-19, and the two poles of collective memory0
Book reviews: The Invention of Rare Books: Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-18400
The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy0
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics0
The exodus memory community: Leveraging oral history records to understand collected memories of violence0
Fear and loathing in monuments: Rethinking the politics and practices of monumentality and monumentalization0
Book Review: Tourism and Memory: Visitor Experiences of the Nazi and GDR Past0
Disappearances, dissident memory and magic: Sandya Ekneligoda’s struggle for justice0
From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack to Anne Lister0
Book review: Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory0
Memories of a fishing landscape: Making sense of flow and decline0
Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings0
Transnational therapeutic memories: Remembering forced migration in documentary film0
The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization0
The possibility of being a Jew: An autoethnographic journey from shattered memory to the memorial body0
Taking the soldier home: Sustaining the domestic presence of absent fallen soldiers in Israel0
Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective0
Book review: Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History0
Memori melompat (‘jumping memory’): The mnemonic motion of Indonesian popular culture and the need for a local reframing0
Living in history and by the cultural life script: What events modulate autobiographical memory organization in a sample of older adults from Romania?0
Book review: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics0
Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram0
Songs from another land: Decolonizing memories of colonialism and the nutmeg trade0
Capture the feeling: Memory practices in between the emotional affordances of heritage sites and digital media0
Therapeutic improvisation in Cambodia: Moderated exposure, the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, and the quest to weave the “world’s longest krama”0
The battle over the past: The role of occupational groups in organizational memory0
Towards Amazon-centred memory studies: Borders, dispossessions and massacres0
Viral Camus: Mapping cultural memory in the Covid era0
‘Travelling landscapes’ and the potential of Artscapes0
Unusual times: Remembering Turkey’s long sixties0
Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes0
Agonistic memory as a relational concept: Remembering socialism in Lithuania0
“History is Illuminating”: Public memory crises and collectives in Richmond, Virginia0
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney0
Recalling the Hunger Winter: Evoking famine memory beyond the national0
Representing evidence0
Of benches and rubble: The aesthetics of difficult memory in two South African museums0
Memories, piety and formation of civil religions: Do revolutionary youth sing along with the memory machine in Iran?0
Fake news and fading views: A vanishing archive of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre0
Book review: Road Scars: Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma0
Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects0
The consequences of Apathy: How Nyayo House becomes an actor for intergenerational solidarity amid the absence of state justice in Kenya0
The Immortal Regiment and its glocalisation: Reformatting Victory Day in Bulgaria0
“Let me be dust”: Memory beyond testimony in Gwangju, South Korea0
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