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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter28
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city26
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?25
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey21
Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship20
Memory and time in early Quakerism17
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past16
Book review: Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the Next Generation IrakozeClaverSinaloCaroline Williamson. Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the Next 15
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum14
Vittorini’s double realities in Conversations in Sicily : Embodied remembering in reading13
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania13
Public appearance and witnessing in two Berlin migrant activist groups13
Memorialicidio : Human rights heritage under threat12
Challenging the implicated subject: Bringing memory activism into the South African university classroom12
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory11
The ‘industrial’ structure of feeling: ‘Slow memory’ and cultural creation in Asturias (Spain)11
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?11
Imagined conversations: A methodological proposal for slow remembering10
The art of memory activism in the global South9
The digital turn in memory studies9
Mobilizing MSA Forward8
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile8
Unnaming buildings8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut7
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
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm TeichlerHannaCarnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Ca7
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work7
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue7
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan7
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina7
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide7
Commemorating amid genocide: Remembrance and resistance among American Armenians, 1915–early 1920s7
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform6
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
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade6
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum6
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong6
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-196
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin6
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) FrancoMa6
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising6
Processing absence: No-body techniques and the impossibility of mourning among relatives of the disappeared in Ayacucho6
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women6
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus6
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20235
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism5
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action5
Book Review: Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century BevernageBerberMestdaghElineRamalhoWalderezVerbergtMarie-Gabrielle (eds). Claiming the People’s Past: 5
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance5
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory5
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance5
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations RoyRituparnaSenguptaJayantaBandyopadhyaySekhar (eds). The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Repre5
Introduction to the special issue: Slowly shifting toward slow memory5
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War5
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study5
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory5
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials5
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence4
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory4
Visual dialogue with racist images of blackness in Poland: On seeing historically4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history4
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies4
Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement4
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing4
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”4
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police4
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia4
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea4
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state-socialist and post-war Kosovo4
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman4
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia3
Postempire: On memory, legacy and deimperiality3
Dementia: Harnessing the power of slow memory to prevent disease progression3
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases3
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond 3
Book Review: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools TeegerChana. Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024, 213
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor3
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China3
Mnemonic naturalism: Anti-communist memory politics and multiculturalism in Canada3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey3
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research3
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach3
Social representations of Canadian history3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia3
Memes, memory and monuments: Humorous debate on memory politics in Estonia3
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast3
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments3
Mission [im]possible: In search of Lithuania’s new national monument 3
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees3
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration2
Monuments from below: Memorial stickers as a new kind of mnemonic activism and socialization2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham2
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos , and the politics of queer memory in Argentina2
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
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape2
Book Review: Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis ResendeEricaBudrytėDovilėBeckerDouglas (eds). Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war2
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation2
Online battles of spectacles over monuments: Reversed perspectives on pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian Telegram channels2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration2
Protest, intervene, remove! Media representations and public reception of the international statue wars in Czechia2
Funding memory, shaping networks: Normative memory entrepreneurs and the making of Memoria Abierta as a model2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials2
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa2
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia2
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies2
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina2
Shifting narratives of the Alta controversy: Innovations in memory studies using natural language processing2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan2
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal2
Slow memory of deindustrialization in post-communist Albanian literature2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro2
The policy of memory, commemoration, post-socialism? Remembering socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside2
Path dependence in research on collective memory: Conceptual exploration and application perspectives2
Remediating Holodomor photography: Frames of violence in the afterlives of famine2
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’2
Reinventing the archive in Africa: Mati Diop’s Dahomey (2024)2
El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory2
The (de)tours of memory: Strategies and tactics of memory at Argentina’s Parque de la Memoria1
Book Review: Exploring Cinema Memory Annette Kuhn1
Ghosts, wounded butterflies, and other thin histories: Memory and the Venezuelan diaspora1
Private museum as public space: Local remembering and memory politics in Yan’an, China1
Book review: Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel1
Trans theoretical approaches to memory and relatedness: Potentials and suggestions at the intersections of transgender studies and queer studies1
Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity1
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes1
Book review: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis1
Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing1
Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–19601
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia1
Rethinking collective memory in a colonial present1
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
Resounding resistance: Decolonising memory through Johannesburg’s sound art narratives1
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience1
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges1
Enacting memories through and with things: Remembering as material engagement1
Beyond the “memory wars”: Teaching the next generation of Korean and Japanese students1
Book review: The Visual Memory of Protest Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits (eds)1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
An inconvenient comparison: Climate change through the lens of the Holocaust1
Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş1
Social fields, journalism, and collective memory: Reporting on the Armenian genocide in legal, political, and commemorative field events1
Mnemonic interventions: Memory and transitional justice at a Uruguayan prison-mall1
Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic1
Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars1
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time1
Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives1
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-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema1
Constructing, reconstructing and representing communities: Polish and Ukrainian memory activists from displaced person camps in Western Germany and Austria after the Second World War1
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise1
The construction of family memory through activist engagement: The case of relatives of the disappeared in Spain1
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work1
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich1
Slow practices of remembering a mental health day centre1
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective1
Book review: Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature1
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum1
Postmemory and documentary aesthetics in the digital age: Two Doors (2012) and Kim-Gun (2018)1
From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century1
Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times1
Perceived societal anomie and the implicit trajectory of national decline: Replicating and extending Yamashiro and Roediger (2019) within a French sample1
Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance1
Book review: Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination1
Slow memory research and mental illness: Studying denied memories in psychiatric care1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
Book review: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present Christina Koulouri1
Book review: Diaspora as Translation and Decolonization Ipek Demir1
Erratum1
Moments of resonance: Creating socio-material connectivity through museum visits for people with dementia and their relatives1
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory1
Addressing a difficult past in South Korea: Was Cheju 4.3 a genocide?1
“I kept it, so it wouldn’t vanish with me”: Audio letters as ambivalent sites of conflicting memory1
Community heritage activism in the American South: Black counter-reenactments as mnemonic restitution1
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike1
Post-war memories and silences within families: Why micro hesitations matter1
When the past meets the present: The role of memory sites in time of crisis in Chile1
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand1
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space1
Clarifying dissenting voices: Exploring the ambivalence around the Canadian national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls1
Book Review: Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities Donald R Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don M Tucker1
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: The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider LevyDanielSznaiderNatan. The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. Philadelphia,1
Book Review: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951–19771
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil1
Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda0
Representing evidence0
Epilogue: An assured disclosure of uncertainty0
Memories, piety and formation of civil religions: Do revolutionary youth sing along with the memory machine in Iran?0
Irish rEUnification? Post-Brexit futures of nostalgia and nostophobia among the Irish diaspora0
Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects0
The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization0
Skateboarding as imperial endeavour: A response to ‘The ludic lives of memoryscapes’0
Memory, authoritarianism, and the arts after the 1965 killings in Indonesia: Who has “The Right to Look” at history?0
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics0
Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings0
Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory0
The consequences of Apathy: How Nyayo House becomes an actor for intergenerational solidarity amid the absence of state justice in Kenya0
Remembering activism: Means and ends0
Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes0
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences: Memory studies, Vietnamese studies, and diasporic Vietnamese studies0
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney0
Theuth, Thamus, and digital civics: Plato’s formulation of memory and its lessons for civic life in the digital age0
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
Slow curating as an ethical–aesthetic practice0
The past as a teacher for the present? Discursive connections between Nazi persecution of Roma and discrimination in the present0
Narrating the revolution: Towards slow memory in Egyptian fiction0
The possibility of being a Jew: An autoethnographic journey from shattered memory to the memorial body0
Fake news and fading views: A vanishing archive of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre0
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