OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Memory Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	31
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city	30
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?	22
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey	18
Memory and time in early Quakerism	16
Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship	16
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 Museum	14
Public appearance and witnessing in two Berlin migrant activist groups	13
Vittorini’s double realities in Conversations in Sicily : Embodied remembering in reading	12
Imagined conversations: A methodological proposal for slow remembering	11
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania	11
The ‘industrial’ structure of feeling: ‘Slow memory’ and cultural creation in Asturias (Spain)	11
The art of memory activism in the global South	11
Challenging the implicated subject: Bringing memory activism into the South African university classroom	10
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	9
Memorialicidio : Human rights heritage under threat	9
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	9
The digital turn in memory studies	8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	8
Mobilizing MSA Forward	8
Unnaming buildings	8
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	8
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	8
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work	7

Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	7
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	7
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	7
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina	7
When necronarratives travel: Latin American post-violence migration to Australia	7
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	7
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	7
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, 2023	7
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	7
Commemorating amid genocide: Remembrance and resistance among American Armenians, 1915–early 1920s	7
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) FrancoMa	6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	6
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	6
Monumental empowerment: The vandalism of public mnemonic objects	6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	6
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	6
Processing absence: No-body techniques and the impossibility of mourning among relatives of the disappeared in Ayacucho	6
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	6
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
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	6
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	5
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	5
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
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	5
Introduction to the special issue: Slowly shifting toward slow memory	5
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	5
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations RoyRituparnaSenguptaJayantaBandyopadhyaySekhar (eds). The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Repre	5
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	5
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”	4
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	4
Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement	4
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	4
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	4
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	4
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state-socialist and post-war Kosovo	4
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	4
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia	4

The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust	4
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	4
Visual dialogue with racist images of blackness in Poland: On seeing historically	4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials	4
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
Social representations of Canadian history	3
Dementia: Harnessing the power of slow memory to prevent disease progression	3
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
“A tool for reconstruction”: The interplay of identity, memory, and ecology in Octavia E Butler’s Dawn	3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	3
Mission [im]possible: In search of Lithuania’s new national monument	3
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	3
Postempire: On memory, legacy and deimperiality	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	3
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees	3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	3
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	3
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	3
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond	3
Mnemonic naturalism: Anti-communist memory politics and multiculturalism in Canada	3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state	3
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	3
Memes, memory and monuments: Humorous debate on memory politics in Estonia	3
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	3
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	3
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration	2
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
Slow memory of deindustrialization in post-communist Albanian literature	2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos , and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	2
The policy of memory, commemoration, post-socialism? Remembering socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside	2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
Shifting narratives of the Alta controversy: Innovations in memory studies using natural language processing	2
El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia	2
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina	2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2
“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
Remediating Holodomor photography: Frames of violence in the afterlives of famine	2
Funding memory, shaping networks: Normative memory entrepreneurs and the making of Memoria Abierta as a model	2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
Book Review: Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues GregoryDanielMichaelianKourken (eds). Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024, 381 pp., US$ 139.	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation	2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women	2
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
Protest, intervene, remove! Media representations and public reception of the international statue wars in Czechia	2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2
Path dependence in research on collective memory: Conceptual exploration and application perspectives	2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy	2
Memory machines in Ada Lovelace’s meta-archive	2
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, 21	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	2
Reinventing the archive in Africa: Mati Diop’s Dahomey (2024)	2
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies	2
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
Monuments from below: Memorial stickers as a new kind of mnemonic activism and socialization	2