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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city45
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter19
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past19
The art of memory activism in the global South17
Memory and time in early Quakerism17
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum16
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic14
What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?14
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory14
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 Romania14
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory14
The digital turn in memory studies14
Mobilizing MSA Forward12
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women12
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile11
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong10
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-1910
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work10
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia10
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan9
Unnaming buildings9
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa9
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide8
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe8
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue7
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm7
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism7
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial7
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance7
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut7
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum6
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice6
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
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia5
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20235
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis5
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) FrancoMa5
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory5
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus5
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 Colombia5
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing4
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia4
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour4
‘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 Africa4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history4
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 Asia3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies3
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
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction3
Non-forgetfulness and forgetfulness 忘 (wang) in ancient Chinese philosophical texts3
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging3
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham3
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases3
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile2
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research2
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin2
“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, Cinema2
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 Taiwan2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor2
‘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 Republic2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-192
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory2
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees2
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 tr2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History2
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists2
Notes toward a methodology of haunting2
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 Janeiro2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory2
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory2
From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century1
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich1
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike1
Book review: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present Christina Koulouri1
Constructing, reconstructing and representing communities: Polish and Ukrainian memory activists from displaced person camps in Western Germany and Austria after the Second World War1
Mnemonic interventions: Memory and transitional justice at a Uruguayan prison-mall1
Enacting memories through and with things: Remembering as material engagement1
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina1
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
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’1
Community heritage activism in the American South: Black counter-reenactments as mnemonic restitution1
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space1
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
Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance1
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil1
Memory, crisis and democracy in Africa1
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia1
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation1
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
Decolonizing Flanders fields: Flemish Great War commemoration and the agency of literature1
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work1
Beyond the “memory wars”: Teaching the next generation of Korean and Japanese students1
Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai1
Book review: The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights1
Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives1
Book Review: Exploring Cinema Memory Annette Kuhn1
When the past meets the present: The role of memory sites in time of crisis in Chile1
Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women1
Book Review: Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities Donald R Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don M Tucker1
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies1
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise1
‘Comfort women must fall’? Japanese governmental responses to ‘comfort women’ statues around the world1
Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş1
Perceived societal anomie and the implicit trajectory of national decline: Replicating and extending Yamashiro and Roediger (2019) within a French sample1
“Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction1
The (de)tours of memory: Strategies and tactics of memory at Argentina’s Parque de la Memoria1
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India1
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time1
Online battles of spectacles over monuments: Reversed perspectives on pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian Telegram channels1
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema1
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand1
Book Review: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951–19771
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
Book review: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis1
Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
Book review: The Visual Memory of Protest Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits (eds)1
Resounding resistance: Decolonising memory through Johannesburg’s sound art narratives1
Book review: Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel1
Post-war memories and silences within families: Why micro hesitations matter1
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa1
Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity1
Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars1
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
Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times1
Memory and far-right historiography: The case of the Christchurch shooter1
A microphone in a chandelier: How a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect1
Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center1
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes1
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory1
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges1
Postmemory and documentary aesthetics in the digital age: Two Doors (2012) and Kim-Gun (2018)1
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience1
The construction of family memory through activist engagement: The case of relatives of the disappeared in Spain1
Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–19601
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum1
Between remembrance and knowledge: The Spanish Flu, COVID-19, and the two poles of collective memory0
Centenaries, museum audiences and discourses of commemoration: Remembering the First World War 2014–20180
Toward a memorial ethics of hope? Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum0
Vernacular de-commemoration: How collectives reckon with the past in the present0
The past as a teacher for the present? Discursive connections between Nazi persecution of Roma and discrimination in the present0
The possibility of being a Jew: An autoethnographic journey from shattered memory to the memorial body0
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney0
Memories of a fishing landscape: Making sense of flow and decline0
Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory0
Taking the soldier home: Sustaining the domestic presence of absent fallen soldiers in Israel0
Recalling the Hunger Winter: Evoking famine memory beyond the national0
Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes0
Selfies in Auschwitz: Popular and contested representations in a digital generation0
The ‘sites of oblivion’: How not to remember in a world of reminders0
Book review: Road Scars: Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma0
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences: Memory studies, Vietnamese studies, and diasporic Vietnamese studies0
Mnemonic wars and parallel polis: The anti-politics of memory in Central and Southeast Europe: Kosovar women and Black/Roma Lives Matter0
Fake news and fading views: A vanishing archive of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre0
Remembering Arte Guerrilha in postdictatorial(ising) Brazil0
Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda0
Memori melompat (‘jumping memory’): The mnemonic motion of Indonesian popular culture and the need for a local reframing0
Therapeutic improvisation in Cambodia: Moderated exposure, the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, and the quest to weave the “world’s longest krama”0
Theuth, Thamus, and digital civics: Plato’s formulation of memory and its lessons for civic life in the digital age0
Epilogue: An assured disclosure of uncertainty0
Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings0
Talk about the Past0
‘The primitive accumulation of capital and memory’: Mnemonic wars as national reconciliation discourse in (post-)Yugoslavia0
The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization0
Of benches and rubble: The aesthetics of difficult memory in two South African museums0
Memories, piety and formation of civil religions: Do revolutionary youth sing along with the memory machine in Iran?0
Transnational therapeutic memories: Remembering forced migration in documentary film0
Memory in action: Reflections on multidirectionality’s possibilities in the classroom0
Homey foods: Domesticating memories of the martial-law era in Taiwan’s heritage tourism0
Book Review: France’s Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des Milles FuggleSophie. France’s Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des Milles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023, $130. ISBN: 9780
Curating implication at the public history museum: Holbæk’s Museum’s West Zealand and the West Indies0
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics0
‘Could we possibly see your tattoo? If not that’s totally fine!’ Holocaust survivors’ playful activism on TikTok0
“Let me be dust”: Memory beyond testimony in Gwangju, South Korea0
Remembering activism: Means and ends0
The consequences of Apathy: How Nyayo House becomes an actor for intergenerational solidarity amid the absence of state justice in Kenya0
Book review: Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory0
Representing evidence0
Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians0
Refracting implication: The question of silence in (A)pollonia0
Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects0
Unusual times: Remembering Turkey’s long sixties0
Book review: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics0
Libyan deportees on the Italian island of Ustica: Remembering colonial deportations in the (peripheral) metropole0
Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective0
Disappearances, dissident memory and magic: Sandya Ekneligoda’s struggle for justice0
Viral Camus: Mapping cultural memory in the Covid era0
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