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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	21
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania	20
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	19
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city	18
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory	17
Memory and time in early Quakerism	16
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	16
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	15
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?	15
The art of memory activism in the global South	14
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey	14
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	12
Book review: Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the Next Generation IrakozeClaverSinaloCaroline Williamson. Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From	12
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic	11
The digital turn in memory studies	11
Unnaming buildings	10
Mobilizing MSA Forward	10
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe	10
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	10
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	10
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	9
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	8
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	8
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work	8
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina	8

Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	8
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm	8
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, 2023	7
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	7
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	6
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
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial	6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	6
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	6
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	6
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	5
The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries	5
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	5
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	5
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice	5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis	5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	5
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	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
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	5
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Book Review: Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh, Walderez Ramalho, and Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (eds)<	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials	4
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state socialist and post-war Kosovo	4
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	4
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	4
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations Rituparna Roy, Jayanta Sengupta, and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (eds) RoyRituparnaSengupta	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	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
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	4
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?	3
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	3
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state	3
Closure in dystopia: Projecting memories of the end of crises in speculative fiction	3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	3

The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	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
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	3
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 Asia	3
Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement	3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
“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
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women	2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan	2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	2
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic	2
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	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
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’	2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration	2
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	2
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	2
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)	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
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees	2
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	2
Making memory work: The SARS memory and China’s war on COVID-19	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2