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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

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	44
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	18
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	17
Memory and time in early Quakerism	16
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	16
The art of memory activism in the global South	14
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	14
The digital turn in memory studies	13
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	13
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory	13
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	13
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic	13
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	12
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial	11
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	10
Mobilizing MSA Forward	10
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa	10
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	10
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	10
Unnaming buildings	9
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	9
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe	9
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm	8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	8
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	7

Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	7
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	7
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	7
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	7
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	7
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	6
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	6
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries	6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	6
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice	5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis	5
Book Review: Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories BarndtKerstinJaegerStephan (eds). Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 367 pp.	5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	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
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico	5
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	4
‘We’re equal to the Jews who were destroyed. [. . .] Compensate us, too’. An affective (un)remembering of Germany’s colonial past?	4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	4
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	4
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials	4
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	3
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia	3
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?	3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	3
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”	3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	3
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	3
Reflexive ethnography of Poland’s non-memory about Jews and the Holocaust: Revisiting fieldwork, revising assumptions	3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	3

Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies	3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
Sacred memory, creole orientalism and India in the plantationscape of Mauritius	3
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	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
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists	2
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	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
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History	2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
Collective memory or the right to be forgotten? Cultures of digital memory and forgetting in the European Union	2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)	2
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	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
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-19	2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees	2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	2
Book review: Remembering Asia’s World War Two	2
Non-forgetfulness and forgetfulness 忘 (wang) in ancient Chinese philosophical texts	2
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction	2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	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
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	2