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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	21
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania	21
Memory and time in early Quakerism	20
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city	20
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	18
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?	17
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey	16
The art of memory activism in the global South	15
Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship	14
The digital turn in memory studies	13
The ‘industrial’ structure of feeling: ‘Slow memory’ and cultural creation in Asturias (Spain)	13
The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory	13
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	12
Memorialicidio : Human rights heritage under threat	12
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	11
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
Mobilizing MSA Forward	10
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	10
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	10
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	10
Unnaming buildings	9
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe	9
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
Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm	8

Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work	8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	8
Spain’s democratic anxieties through the lens of Franco’s reburial	7
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina	7
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
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	6
Commemorating amid genocide: Remembrance and resistance among American Armenians, 1915–early 1920s	6
Constructing the tellability of intergenerational memory narratives in collective remembering in StoryCorps, a digital memory-sharing platform	6
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	6
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	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
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	5
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	5
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	5
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	5
States of conception: Renegotiating the mnemonic order amid crisis	5
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	5
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico	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
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	5
Book Review: Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age	5
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	5
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	5
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	5
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	5
Book review: Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, and Voice	5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	5
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	4
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations RoyRituparnaSenguptaJayantaBandyopadhyaySekhar (eds). The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Repre	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	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: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies	4
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	4
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	4
Book Review: Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century BevernageBerberMestdaghElineRamalhoWalderezVerbergtMarie-Gabrielle (eds). Claiming the People’s Past:	4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
Book review: Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn From the Past?	4
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa	4
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	4
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	4
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”	4
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	3

Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement	3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	3
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	3
Mnemonic naturalism: Anti-communist memory politics and multiculturalism in Canada	3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	3
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia	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
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	3
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	3
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	3
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	3
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust	3
Book review: Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human Clara De Massol De Rebetz De RebetzClara De Massol. Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)	2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	2
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	2
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	2
Memes, memory and monuments: Humorous debate on memory politics in Estonia	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy	2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	2
When does an epidemic become a ‘crisis’? Analogies between Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS in American public memory	2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
‘We thought she was a witch’: Gender, class and whiteness in the familial ‘memory archive’	2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	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
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos, and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women	2
Postmemory and documentary aesthetics in the digital age: Two Doors (2012) and Kim-Gun (2018)	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	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
Book Review: Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema	2
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	2
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	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: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	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