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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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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
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past19
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter18
Memory and time in early Quakerism17
The digital turn in memory studies17
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?14
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic14
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory14
The art of memory activism in the global South14
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory14
Mobilizing MSA Forward13
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women13
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum13
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile11
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia10
Unnaming buildings10
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-1910
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa10
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong10
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan10
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide9
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe9
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut8
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm8
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries7
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance7
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20237
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial7
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice7
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising6
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin6
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age6
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
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis6
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade6
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico6
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia6
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia5
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)5
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea5
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism5
Book Review: Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories BarndtKerstinJaegerStephan (eds). Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 367 pp.5
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory5
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform5
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory5
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War5
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence4
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour4
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police4
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies4
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history4
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham4
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman4
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing4
‘We’re equal to the Jews who were destroyed. [. . .] Compensate us, too’. An affective (un)remembering of Germany’s colonial past?4
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories3
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey3
Non-forgetfulness and forgetfulness 忘 (wang) in ancient Chinese philosophical texts3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging3
Reflexive ethnography of Poland’s non-memory about Jews and the Holocaust: Revisiting fieldwork, revising assumptions3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia3
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond 3
Sacred memory, creole orientalism and India in the plantationscape of Mauritius3
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach3
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases3
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History2
“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
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship2
Notes toward a methodology of haunting2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina2
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory2
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’2
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists2
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research2
Book review: Remembering Asia’s World War Two2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-192
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin2
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema2
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
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism2
When the past meets the present: The role of memory sites in time of crisis in Chile1
Beyond presentism: Memory studies, deep history and the challenges of transmission1
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation1
Post-war memories and silences within families: Why micro hesitations matter1
Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
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
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space1
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina1
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy1
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
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory1
Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center1
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing1
The construction of family memory through activist engagement: The case of relatives of the disappeared in Spain1
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand1
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum1
Putting metaphor centre-stage: A case study of Alison Landsberg’s ‘Prosthetic Memory’1
From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century1
Book review: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present Christina Koulouri1
Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives1
Mnemonic interventions: Memory and transitional justice at a Uruguayan prison-mall1
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
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa1
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike1
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
Memory and far-right historiography: The case of the Christchurch shooter1
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
Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema1
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes1
Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş1
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil1
The (de)tours of memory: Strategies and tactics of memory at Argentina’s Parque de la Memoria1
A microphone in a chandelier: How a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect1
Memory, crisis and democracy in Africa1
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience1
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges1
Decolonizing Flanders fields: Flemish Great War commemoration and the agency of literature1
An Instituting Archive for Memory Activism: The Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina1
Beyond the “memory wars”: Teaching the next generation of Korean and Japanese students1
Book review: The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights1
Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai1
Book Review: Exploring Cinema Memory Annette Kuhn1
Enacting memories through and with things: Remembering as material engagement1
Women as cultural agents: Double coloniality, gender and diasporic memories of ethnic Greek Georgian women1
Resounding resistance: Decolonising memory through Johannesburg’s sound art narratives1
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia1
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India1
Book Review: Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities Donald R Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don M Tucker1
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise1
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work1
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham1
Perceived societal anomie and the implicit trajectory of national decline: Replicating and extending Yamashiro and Roediger (2019) within a French sample1
Book Review: Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum BuchczykMagdalena. Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum. Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin.1
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory1
Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times1
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time1
Towards an economy of memory: Defining material conditions of remembrance1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
Postmemory and documentary aesthetics in the digital age: Two Doors (2012) and Kim-Gun (2018)1
“Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction1
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
Book Review: Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951–19771
Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective1
‘Comfort women must fall’? Japanese governmental responses to ‘comfort women’ statues around the world1
Book review: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis1
Book review: The Visual Memory of Protest Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits (eds)1
Non-memory: Remembering beyond the discursive and the symbolic1
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich1
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney0
The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization0
Selfies in Auschwitz: Popular and contested representations in a digital generation0
Centenaries, museum audiences and discourses of commemoration: Remembering the First World War 2014–20180
‘The primitive accumulation of capital and memory’: Mnemonic wars as national reconciliation discourse in (post-)Yugoslavia0
Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians0
Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings0
Homey foods: Domesticating memories of the martial-law era in Taiwan’s heritage tourism0
Memori melompat (‘jumping memory’): The mnemonic motion of Indonesian popular culture and the need for a local reframing0
‘Could we possibly see your tattoo? If not that’s totally fine!’ Holocaust survivors’ playful activism on TikTok0
Book review: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics0
Remembering Arte Guerrilha in postdictatorial(ising) Brazil0
Agonistic memory as a relational concept: Remembering socialism in Lithuania0
Between remembrance and knowledge: The Spanish Flu, COVID-19, and the two poles of collective memory0
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences: Memory studies, Vietnamese studies, and diasporic Vietnamese studies0
Memory and Crisis: An Introduction0
Book review: Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History0
Theuth, Thamus, and digital civics: Plato’s formulation of memory and its lessons for civic life in the digital age0
Representing evidence0
Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects0
Recalling the Hunger Winter: Evoking famine memory beyond the national0
Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective0
Taking the soldier home: Sustaining the domestic presence of absent fallen soldiers in Israel0
Libyan deportees on the Italian island of Ustica: Remembering colonial deportations in the (peripheral) metropole0
Fake news and fading views: A vanishing archive of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre0
Disappearances, dissident memory and magic: Sandya Ekneligoda’s struggle for justice0
The Immortal Regiment and its glocalisation: Reformatting Victory Day in Bulgaria0
Book Review: Peace and the Politics of Memory MannergrenJohannaBjörkdahlAnnikaBuckley-ZistelSusanneKapplerStefanieWilliamsTimothy. Peace and the Politics of Memory. Manchester: Manchester University P0
The ‘sites of oblivion’: How not to remember in a world of reminders0
The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy0
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
Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth0
Viral Camus: Mapping cultural memory in the Covid era0
Book review: Road Scars: Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma0
Epilogue: An assured disclosure of uncertainty0
Book review: Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory0
Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory0
Memories, piety and formation of civil religions: Do revolutionary youth sing along with the memory machine in Iran?0
Talk about the Past0
Streaming media and the dynamics of remembering and forgetting: The Chernobyl case0
Travelling and multiscaler memory: Remembering East Timor’s Santa Cruz massacre from the transnational to the intimate0
Remembering activism: Means and ends0
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics0
Mnemonic wars and parallel polis: The anti-politics of memory in Central and Southeast Europe: Kosovar women and Black/Roma Lives Matter0
Vernacular de-commemoration: How collectives reckon with the past in the present0
Curating implication at the public history museum: Holbæk’s Museum’s West Zealand and the West Indies0
Therapeutic improvisation in Cambodia: Moderated exposure, the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, and the quest to weave the “world’s longest krama”0
Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue0
Memory wars beyond the metaphor: Reflections on Russia’s mnemonic propaganda0
Transnational therapeutic memories: Remembering forced migration in documentary film0
Refracting implication: The question of silence in (A)pollonia0
Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes0
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