Memory Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Memory Studies is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema36
Book reviews: La muerte del verdugo. Reflexiones interdisciplinarias sobre el cadáver de los criminales de masa24
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists16
My autobiography of Reed Erickson, or, how to re-member a ghost16
Whatever happened to Hungarian freedom fighters? Collective memory, collective forgetting, and dissociative collective identity15
Casa 1, a site of LGBTQ memory in São Paulo, Brazil15
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research15
Memory and kinship across the Indo-Myanmar border: A study of the lived experiences of displaced Kuki families12
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum12
Solidarity: Memory work, periodicals and the protest lexicon in the long 1960s12
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile11
Book review: Foreverism Grafton Tanner11
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?11
Book Review: Sown In Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging10
Intertextual analysis as a tool for examining processes of memory transformation in literature: Types, figures, and functions10
Developing a memory studies program: Lessons and challenges9
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter9
A new agenda for a consolidated field of studies: New and old themes of memory studies in Latin America19
Filmic memory texts: Seeing America’s archeological turn from salvage to conservation in Spadework for History9
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship8
The Kashmiri diaspora remembers the displacement: Implication and the challenge of healing8
Memory in action: Reflections on multidirectionality’s possibilities in the classroom8
Memory studies on the frontlines of the culture wars7
State, market, and the manufacturing of war memory: China’s television dramas on the War of Resistance against Japan7
An international, interdisciplinary, online graduate seminar in memory studies: Report on an experiment in a time of crisis7
Cued recall: Using photo-elicitation to examine the distributed processes of remembering with photographs6
Narrating political participation: How do lifetime activists remember their political experiences?6
Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia6
Collectivizing justice: Participatory witnessing, sense memory, and emotional communities6
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism6
A global label and its local appropriations. Representations of the Righteous Among the Nations in contemporary European museums6
Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic6
Afro-Germans, multidirectional memory and French colonial aphasia: The legacy of the First World War in Galadio by Didier Daeninckx6
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past6
The commendable antisemite? Vienna’s mnemonic struggle with Karl Lueger6
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city5
Memory and race at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights5
A politics of placelessness? The limits of democratising memory in the Centro de Documentación e Investigación of Lima’s Lugar de la Memoria5
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees5
Holocaust remembrance in the digital age: The transformative influence of technology, digital archives, and connective memory5
Challenging the placeless imaginary in digital memories: The performation of place in the work of Forensic Architecture5
Visual symbols, democracy and memory: The monument of Ivan Stepanovich Konev and the memory of communism in the Czech Republic4
Book review: Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten “Spanish” Flu of 1918-19194
Media memory activism in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina4
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise4
Notes towards a historical, critical theory of memory constellations: Postcolonial nationalist memory in Michael Anthony’s King of the Masquerade4
Memorials’ politics: Exploring the material rhetoric of the Statue of Peace4
Memory and time in early Quakerism4
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory4
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory4
“Let me tell you what we already know”: Collective memory between culture and interaction4
Memory laws, mnemonic weapons: The diffusion of a norm across Europe and beyond4
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory4
Remembering through fragmented narratives: Third generations and the intergenerational memory of the 1965 anti-leftist violence in Indonesia4
The digital turn in memory studies4
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide3
Dialita: Collective memories of former women political prisoners during the New Order era in Java, 2000–20113
‘Practices of self’: Embodied memory work, performance art, and intersectional activism in Namibia3
Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory3
Unnaming buildings3
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory3
Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil3
Promnesic futures: Technology, climate, déjà vu3
Book Review: Tourism and Memory: Visitor Experiences of the Nazi and GDR Past3
Memory dialogics: Scholastique Mukasonga’s literary renegotiation of Rwandan Genocide narratives3
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies3
Repeating beats: The return of rave, memories of joy and nostalgia between the afterglow and the hangover3
Pro-dictatorship memorialization in democratic Chile (1990–2020): How is it maintained?3
The Filipino comfort women on YouTube: Emotions, advocacy, and war memories in a transnational digital space3
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile3
An Instituting Archive for Memory Activism: The Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina3
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm3
Book review: Remembrance Now: 21st-Century Memorial Architecture3
Memory, counter-memory and denialism: How search engines circulate information about the Holodomor-related memory wars3
The sequence form of accounting for atrocity3
Near and far: Tracing memory and reframing presence in pandemic-era Argentina3
Incommensurable worlds, irreparable wounds: Transitional justice politics and personal violent pasts in postconflict Peru2
Toward the transnational memory of Holodomor: The famine commemorative genre and the Ukrainian diaspora2
Mobilizing MSA Forward2
Book Review: The Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social Memories2
Capture the feeling: Memory practices in between the emotional affordances of heritage sites and digital media2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro2
Book review: Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda David Mwambari2
Collective memory of environmental change and connectedness with nature: Survey evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand2
Book review2
Fear and loathing in monuments: Rethinking the politics and practices of monumentality and monumentalization2
Beyond denial: Justifications of mass violence as an agenda for memory studies2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)2
Why collective memory can never be pluriversal: A case for contradiction and abolitionist thinking in memory studies2
Book Review: Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944–1964: Post-Communist Remembering2
Memory conflicts and memory grey zones: War memory in Bosnia–Herzegovina between public memory disputes, literary narratives and personal experience2
Towards Amazon-centred memory studies: Borders, dispossessions and massacres2
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women2
Book review: Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa2
‘Could we possibly see your tattoo? If not that’s totally fine!’ Holocaust survivors’ playful activism on TikTok2
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut2
Shape of storage memory: A digital analysis of the museums’ storage of Northeast Europe2
The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time2
Book review: The Persistence of Memory: Remembering Slavery in Liverpool, “Slaving Capital of the World.”2
Memory dynamics in times of crisis: An interview with Sarah Gensburger2
Memorial museums and burial sites: Rwanda’s unfinished memory work2
A microphone in a chandelier: How a secret recording sparks mnemonic imagination and affect2
Creating memory of COVID-19: The actions of museums and archives in Spain2
Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth2
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia2
Book review: Remembering Asia’s World War Two1
Taking the soldier home: Sustaining the domestic presence of absent fallen soldiers in Israel1
Explosive aftermaths: Reassembling transnational memory- and policyscapes of victims and terrorism in the United Kingdom1
Libyan deportees on the Italian island of Ustica: Remembering colonial deportations in the (peripheral) metropole1
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration1
Gendering arctic memory: Understanding the legacy of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary1
Book review: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis1
The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy1
Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives1
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism1
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina1
Homey foods: Domesticating memories of the martial-law era in Taiwan’s heritage tourism1
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial1
“Let me be dust”: Memory beyond testimony in Gwangju, South Korea1
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film1
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia1
The dead as memory workers1
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico1
‘I can’t remember how many I killed. . .’: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube1
Branding public memory in the Walmart Museum1
Between remembrance and knowledge: The Spanish Flu, COVID-19, and the two poles of collective memory1
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials1
E.E. in 2022: Young, angry, and female?1
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements1
Agonistic homecomings: Holocaust postmemory, perspective and locality1
From Auschwitz to the West Indies: The impact of Holocaust memory on Thorkild Hansen’s “slave trilogy”1
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory1
Memories of a fishing landscape: Making sense of flow and decline1
Far-right anniversary politics and social media: The Alternative for Germany’s contestation of the East German past on Twitter1
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin1
Transnational therapeutic memories: Remembering forced migration in documentary film1
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa1
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum1
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema1
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin1
Remembering forgotten heroes and the idealisation of true love: Veteran memorial activism in contemporary China1
Contentious memories of a riot dog: The Matapacos statue intervention during the 2019/2020 social uprising in Chile1
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal1
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape1
On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement1
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan1
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan1
Mnemonic wars and parallel polis: The anti-politics of memory in Central and Southeast Europe: Kosovar women and Black/Roma Lives Matter1
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue1
Ayfer Tunç’s The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse as a multi-perspectival fiction of memory1
Book review: Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives1
Forensic, clinical and everyday remembering: Exploring the role of perceived audience in changes across autobiographical memory recollections1
Book review: Road Scars: Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma1
Texas, monuments, toward a politics of self-reckoning1
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe1
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia1
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong1
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 20231
Selfies in Auschwitz: Popular and contested representations in a digital generation1
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform1
Beyond the “memory wars”: Teaching the next generation of Korean and Japanese students1
Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide–ecocide nexus1
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade1
Depicting truth and transition at national memorial museums in Chile and Peru1
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war1
‘Comfort women must fall’? Japanese governmental responses to ‘comfort women’ statues around the world1
Designing the memory of terror, negotiating national memory: The National September 11 Memorial and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice1
Lubyanka: Dissonant memories of violence in the heart of Moscow1
A network of photographs: The visual public memory of the Dutch Provo movement, 1967–20161
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-191
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance1
Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue1
From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century1
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