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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)
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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 city25
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter25
Memory and time in early Quakerism22
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past21
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?19
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey17
The art of memory activism in the global South15
Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship14
The ‘industrial’ structure of feeling: ‘Slow memory’ and cultural creation in Asturias (Spain)14
Challenging the implicated subject: Bringing memory activism into the South African university classroom13
Memorialicidio : Human rights heritage under threat13
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory12
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania12
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 11
The digital turn in memory studies11
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum11
Public appearance and witnessing in two Berlin migrant activist groups10
Vittorini’s double realities in Conversations in Sicily : Embodied remembering in reading9
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?9
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile8
Mobilizing MSA Forward8
Unnaming buildings7
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, 20237
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong7
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan7
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut7
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women7
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work7
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
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm TeichlerHannaCarnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Ca6
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide6
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-196
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age6
Commemorating amid genocide: Remembrance and resistance among American Armenians, 1915–early 1920s6
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue6
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade6
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico6
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial6
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina6
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia6
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus6
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) FrancoMa6
Processing absence: No-body techniques and the impossibility of mourning among relatives of the disappeared in Ayacucho5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia5
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War5
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory5
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia5
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance5
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform5
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies5
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action5
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
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum5
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice5
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20235
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study5
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing5
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations RoyRituparnaSenguptaJayantaBandyopadhyaySekhar (eds). The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Repre5
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance4
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state socialist and post-war Kosovo4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory4
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman4
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence4
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea4
Visual dialogue with racist images of blackness in Poland: On seeing historically4
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham4
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies4
Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement4
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”4
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history4
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies4
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police4
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia4
Mnemonic naturalism: Anti-communist memory politics and multiculturalism in Canada4
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey3
Mission [im]possible: In search of Lithuania’s new national monument 3
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories3
Social representations of Canadian history3
Memes, memory and monuments: Humorous debate on memory politics in Estonia3
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast3
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory3
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond 3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases3
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research3
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, 213
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach3
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust3
Postempire: On memory, legacy and deimperiality3
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories2
Protest, intervene, remove! Media representations and public reception of the international statue wars in Czechia2
Monuments from below: Memorial stickers as a new kind of mnemonic activism and socialization2
El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia2
Remediating Holodomor photography: Frames of violence in the afterlives of famine2
“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
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory2
Funding memory, shaping networks: Normative memory entrepreneurs and the making of Memoria Abierta as a model2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism2
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
Reinventing the archive in Africa: Mati Diop’s Dahomey (2024)2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham2
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos , and the politics of queer memory in Argentina2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro2
The policy of memory, commemoration, post-socialism? Remembering socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy2
Shifting narratives of the Alta controversy: Innovations in memory studies using natural language processing2
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa2
Postmemory and documentary aesthetics in the digital age: Two Doors (2012) and Kim-Gun (2018)2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies2
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India2
Path dependence in research on collective memory: Conceptual exploration and application perspectives2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)2
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space1
Addressing a difficult past in South Korea: Was Cheju 4.3 a genocide?1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges1
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work1
Moments of resonance: Creating socio-material connectivity through museum visits for people with dementia and their relatives1
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
Ghosts, wounded butterflies, and other thin histories: Memory and the Venezuelan diaspora1
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum1
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation1
From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century1
Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş1
Beyond the “memory wars”: Teaching the next generation of Korean and Japanese students1
The (de)tours of memory: Strategies and tactics of memory at Argentina’s Parque de la Memoria1
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
Mnemonic interventions: Memory and transitional justice at a Uruguayan prison-mall1
Enacting memories through and with things: Remembering as material engagement1
Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times1
Book Review: Exploring Cinema Memory Annette Kuhn1
Book Review: Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities Donald R Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don M Tucker1
Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women1
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil1
Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity1
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory1
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing1
“I kept it, so it wouldn’t vanish with me”: Audio letters as ambivalent sites of conflicting memory1
Book review: Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel1
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies1
An Instituting Archive for Memory Activism: The Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina1
Book Review: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951–19771
Online battles of spectacles over monuments: Reversed perspectives on pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian Telegram channels1
Book review: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis1
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes1
Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic1
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
Rethinking collective memory in a colonial present1
An inconvenient comparison: Climate change through the lens of the Holocaust1
Book review: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present Christina Koulouri1
Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema1
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise1
Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective1
Clarifying dissenting voices: Exploring the ambivalence around the Canadian national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls1
Erratum1
Post-war memories and silences within families: Why micro hesitations matter1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
Beyond presentism: Memory studies, deep history and the challenges of transmission1
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time1
Community heritage activism in the American South: Black counter-reenactments as mnemonic restitution1
Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–19601
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
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
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia1
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia1
Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives1
Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center1
Resounding resistance: Decolonising memory through Johannesburg’s sound art narratives1
Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance1
When the past meets the present: The role of memory sites in time of crisis in Chile1
Perceived societal anomie and the implicit trajectory of national decline: Replicating and extending Yamashiro and Roediger (2019) within a French sample1
Book review: The Visual Memory of Protest Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits (eds)1
Constructing, reconstructing and representing communities: Polish and Ukrainian memory activists from displaced person camps in Western Germany and Austria after the Second World War1
Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars1
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich1
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand1
Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory0
Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects0
Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings0
Epilogue: An assured disclosure of uncertainty0
Vernacular de-commemoration: How collectives reckon with the past in the present0
Centenaries, museum audiences and discourses of commemoration: Remembering the First World War 2014–20180
Disappearances, dissident memory and magic: Sandya Ekneligoda’s struggle for justice0
Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective0
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney0
‘Could we possibly see your tattoo? If not that’s totally fine!’ Holocaust survivors’ playful activism on TikTok0
The shrine and the reactor: Materializing nuclear memory and power at VDNKh0
Dialogic remembering as method: Activating relationality in memories of postsocialist “transitions”0
The consequences of Apathy: How Nyayo House becomes an actor for intergenerational solidarity amid the absence of state justice in Kenya0
The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization0
Narrating the revolution: Towards slow memory in Egyptian fiction0
The possibility of being a Jew: An autoethnographic journey from shattered memory to the memorial body0
Irish rEUnification? Post-Brexit futures of nostalgia and nostophobia among the Irish diaspora0
Viral Camus: Mapping cultural memory in the Covid era0
Fake news and fading views: A vanishing archive of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre0
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics0
Homey foods: Domesticating memories of the martial-law era in Taiwan’s heritage tourism0
Representing evidence0
A transnational memory of enforced disappearance in Latin America0
Mnemonic wars and parallel polis: The anti-politics of memory in Central and Southeast Europe: Kosovar women and Black/Roma Lives Matter0
Agonistic memory as a relational concept: Remembering socialism in Lithuania0
Memories, piety and formation of civil religions: Do revolutionary youth sing along with the memory machine in Iran?0
Remembering activism: Means and ends0
Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes0
Book review: Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory BastianJeannette A. Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory.London: Routl0
Theuth, Thamus, and digital civics: Plato’s formulation of memory and its lessons for civic life in the digital age0
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences: Memory studies, Vietnamese studies, and diasporic Vietnamese studies0
Transnational therapeutic memories: Remembering forced migration in documentary film0
Skateboarding as imperial endeavour: A response to ‘The ludic lives of memoryscapes’0
Memory, authoritarianism, and the arts after the 1965 killings in Indonesia: Who has “The Right to Look” at history?0
Reclaimed narratives: Nonofficial names as counter-memories in Kigali’s urban landscape0
Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda0
Taking the soldier home: Sustaining the domestic presence of absent fallen soldiers in Israel0
Therapeutic improvisation in Cambodia: Moderated exposure, the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, and the quest to weave the “world’s longest krama”0
The past as a teacher for the present? Discursive connections between Nazi persecution of Roma and discrimination in the present0
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