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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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	36
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic	25
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	16
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory	16
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	16
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	15
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	15
The digital turn in memory studies	13
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	12
Memory and time in early Quakerism	12
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	12
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	12
Memorials’ politics: Exploring the material rhetoric of the Statue of Peace	12
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial	10
Remembering forgotten heroes and the idealisation of true love: Veteran memorial activism in contemporary China	10
Mobilizing MSA Forward	10
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	10
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	9
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	9
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	9
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	8
Unnaming buildings	8
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa	8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	7
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe	7

Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm	7
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	7
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	6
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	6
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	6
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	6
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	6
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries	6
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis	5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice	5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	5
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	5
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	5
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico	4
‘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 memorials	4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
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 Korea	4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	4
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	4
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	4
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
Book review	3
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 monuments	3
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies	3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	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
Reflexive ethnography of Poland’s non-memory about Jews and the Holocaust: Revisiting fieldwork, revising assumptions	3
Non-forgetfulness and forgetfulness 忘 (wang) in ancient Chinese philosophical texts	3
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?	3

The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	3
Sacred memory, creole orientalism and India in the plantationscape of Mauritius	3
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
Post-memory and the third generation’s inheritance of the Indian partition (1947): A comparative study of the linguistic register across spatial axes	2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic	2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	2
A politics of placelessness? The limits of democratising memory in the Centro de Documentación e Investigación of Lima’s Lugar de la Memoria	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-19	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration	2
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory	2
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists	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
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	2
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	2
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema	2
Promnesic futures: Technology, climate, déjà vu	2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2
Book review: Remembering Asia’s World War Two	2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’	2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	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: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2