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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania	21
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	21
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city	20
Memory and time in early Quakerism	18
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	15
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey	14
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?	14
The art of memory activism in the global South	14
Memorialicidio : Human rights heritage under threat	12
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	12
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	12
Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship	12
The digital turn in memory studies	11
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	10
Public appearance and witnessing in two Berlin migrant activist groups	10
The ‘industrial’ structure of feeling: ‘Slow memory’ and cultural creation in Asturias (Spain)	10
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	9
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	9
Mobilizing MSA Forward	8
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	8
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	7
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	7
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm	7
Unnaming buildings	7
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	6

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	6
Commemorating amid genocide: Remembrance and resistance among American Armenians, 1915–early 1920s	6
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work	6
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	6
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	6
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	6
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina	6
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	6
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial	6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	5
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	5
Book Review: Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories BarndtKerstinJaegerStephan (eds). Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 367 pp., $140.00. ISBN: 9783110787405.	5
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	5
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	5
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico	5
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice	5
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	5
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	5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	4
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	4
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials	4
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations RoyRituparnaSenguptaJayantaBandyopadhyaySekhar (eds). The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Repre	4
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state socialist and post-war Kosovo	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa	4
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Book Review: Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century BevernageBerberMestdaghElineRamalhoWalderezVerbergtMarie-Gabrielle (eds). Claiming the People’s Past:	4
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies	3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	3
Mnemonic naturalism: Anti-communist memory politics and multiculturalism in Canada	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	3
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia	3

Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	3
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust	3
Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state	3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	3
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	3
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”	3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	3
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema	2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan	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
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration	2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees	2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	2
Memes, memory and monuments: Humorous debate on memory politics in Estonia	2
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History	2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’	2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women	2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	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
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	2
Mission [im]possible: In search of Lithuania’s new national monument	2
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	2
The policy of memory, commemoration, post-socialism? Remembering socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside	2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	2