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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city	45
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	19
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	19
The art of memory activism in the global South	17
Memory and time in early Quakerism	17
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	16
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	14
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	14
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania	14
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory	14
The digital turn in memory studies	14
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic	14
What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?	14
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	12
Mobilizing MSA Forward	12
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	11
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	10
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work	10
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	10
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	10
Unnaming buildings	9
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa	9
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	9
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	8
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe	8

Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	7
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm	7
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	7
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial	7
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	7
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	7
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	6
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice	6
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	6
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries	6
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis	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
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	5
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico	5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	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
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	5
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	5
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	5
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	4
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	4
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	4
‘We’re equal to the Jews who were destroyed. [. . .] Compensate us, too’. An affective (un)remembering of Germany’s colonial past?	4
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Non-forgetfulness and forgetfulness 忘 (wang) in ancient Chinese philosophical texts	3
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?	3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	3
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies	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
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	3
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”	3
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia	3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state	3
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction	3
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women	2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	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
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
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 Taiwan	2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’	2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic	2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-19	2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	2
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union	2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	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
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 tr	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History	2
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists	2
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	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
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	2
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory	2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	2
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research	2
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	2