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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter	28
‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city	26
Removal Notice: What can the Gezi protests on their 10th anniversary tell us about the dialogicality of memory?	25
Implicit collective memory and how it fuels implicit activism in Nigeria’s EndSARS movement: A digital ethnographic journey	21
Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship	20
Memory and time in early Quakerism	17
A creativity-focused anniversary: Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations at the heart of a cultural economy of the past	16
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	15
Spatializing collective memory: The idea of home and the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum	14
Public appearance and witnessing in two Berlin migrant activist groups	13
Vittorini’s double realities in Conversations in Sicily : Embodied remembering in reading	13
“What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania	13
Memorialicidio : Human rights heritage under threat	12
Challenging the implicated subject: Bringing memory activism into the South African university classroom	12
Lived queer memorials: How socially inclusive are queer sites of memory?	11
Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory	11
The ‘industrial’ structure of feeling: ‘Slow memory’ and cultural creation in Asturias (Spain)	11
Imagined conversations: A methodological proposal for slow remembering	10
The art of memory activism in the global South	9
The digital turn in memory studies	9
Mobilizing MSA Forward	8
Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile	8
Unnaming buildings	8
Ethical memory and cinema: Confronting the past in Fatih Akın’s The Cut	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

Book Review: Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm TeichlerHannaCarnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Ca	7
Place, space, and counter-mapping digital memory work	7
Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue	7
Lens to difficult history: Museums of Hansen’s disease in Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan	7
“The military has buried corpses, and they have built houses on top”: Rumors, space, and affect in post-dictatorship Argentina	7
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide	7
Commemorating amid genocide: Remembrance and resistance among American Armenians, 1915–early 1920s	7
Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women	6
Divided memory, postcolonialism and trauma in the South Caucasus	6
The living past in the lives of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence: Temporal implications for transitional justice	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	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
Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia	6
A non-existent cemetery: The memory of Germans in today’s Belgrade	6
Intergenerational transmission of historical memory of volcanic risk in Mexico	6
Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum	6
Mediating memories: Individual remembering of two mass protests in Hong Kong	6
Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19	6
HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin	6
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	6
Changing the story: Intergenerational dialogue, participatory video and perpetrator memories in Cambodia	6
Race, memory and implication in Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising	6
Processing absence: No-body techniques and the impossibility of mourning among relatives of the disappeared in Ayacucho	6
Memory and protest in Belgrade: Remembering the 1990s in the mass demonstrations of 2023	5
Beyond difficult pasts: Towards a fuller understanding of memory-making in tourism	5
Book review: Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action	5
Book Review: Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century BevernageBerberMestdaghElineRamalhoWalderezVerbergtMarie-Gabrielle (eds). Claiming the People’s Past:	5
Introduction: Taking stock of memory studies	5
From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020)	5
Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia	5
Memorializing the unspectacular: Toward a minor remembrance	5
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour	5
Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory	5
Remembering the anti-Soviet partisan war in Lithuania, 1944–1953: The effects of heroization at different levels of remembrance	5
Book review: The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations RoyRituparnaSenguptaJayantaBandyopadhyaySekhar (eds). The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Repre	5
Introduction to the special issue: Slowly shifting toward slow memory	5
The emancipatory potential of the Yugoslav socialist narratives of the Second World War	5
Analysing the culturalization and entextualization of past experience: A micro-study	5
Texturing concrete: Woodstock Beach beneath Woodstock streets – Place and material memory	5
Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials	5
Slow memory and historical storytelling: Gender politics in state-socialist and post-war Kosovo	4
Book review: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories Orli Fridman	4
Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence	4
Walking tours as transcultural memory activism: Referencing memories of trauma and migration to redefine urban belonging	4
(Un)rest in revolution: Beijing’s Eight Treasures Mountain (Babaoshan) Revolutionary Cemetery and the making of China’s national memory	4
Visual dialogue with racist images of blackness in Poland: On seeing historically	4
Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history	4
The Mnemonics summer school: Reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies	4

Never again: Collective trauma and populism in Slovakia’s debate about the US Defence Cooperation Agreement	4
Book review: Post-Conflict Memorialization. Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies	4
Repairing the past: Chinese grassroots memory actors and the restoration and expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing	4
Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”	4
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police	4
The potential of transnational history education: Attempts at university teaching practice in East Asia	4
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	4
The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea	4
Beyond trauma: Positive postmemories among second- and third-generation North Korean war refugees	3
‘Fiction keeps memory about the war alive’: Mnemonic migration and literary representations of the war in Bosnia	3
Postempire: On memory, legacy and deimperiality	3
Dementia: Harnessing the power of slow memory to prevent disease progression	3
Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases	3
The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migration history discuss the role of the Holocaust	3
Book Review: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools TeegerChana. Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024, 21	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
Book Review: Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America SaloulIhabVioliPatriziaLorussoAnna MariaDemariaCristina (eds). Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memor	3
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe	3
Incriminated writers and their wives: Gendered memory of a national campaign in Mao’s China	3
Mnemonic naturalism: Anti-communist memory politics and multiculturalism in Canada	3
Provincializing memory studies (again): Cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and fugitive memories	3
Notes toward a methodology of haunting	3
Redressing the redress of the High Arctic exiles: The limits of recognition in a white settler state	3
Navigating victimhood: Women’s life writing and activist memory in Turkey	3
Affective future and non-existent history: The issue of future past in memory research	3
Memories of indenture: An analysis of representations of indentured labour at the Aapravasi Ghat and the 1860 heritage centre	3
Owning discoveries of other’s past: A psychological approach	3
Social representations of Canadian history	3
Turkey’s 12 September coup: From trauma to nostalgia	3
Book review: A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory	3
Memes, memory and monuments: Humorous debate on memory politics in Estonia	3
Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments	3
Conjuring the ‘ship of dreams’: Spatial narratives and making the absent present around and within Titanic Belfast	3
Mission [im]possible: In search of Lithuania’s new national monument	3
Reinventing the archive in Africa: Mati Diop’s Dahomey (2024)	2
Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory	2
El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia	2
Monuments from below: Memorial stickers as a new kind of mnemonic activism and socialization	2
Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration	2
Book review: The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India	2
Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham	2
My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements	2
Homonationalism, LGBT desaparecidos , and the politics of queer memory in Argentina	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
Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship	2
Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile	2
Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape	2
Book Review: Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis ResendeEricaBudrytėDovilėBeckerDouglas (eds). Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis	2
Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war	2
TheBangsokolRequiem, affective intensification, and memory activation	2
The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies	2
Online battles of spectacles over monuments: Reversed perspectives on pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian Telegram channels	2
Protest, intervene, remove! Media representations and public reception of the international statue wars in Czechia	2
The Windrush and the BUMIDOM: The memorialization of Caribbean migration	2
Entrepreneurs of memory: Selling history in the GDR Museum shop in Berlin	2
Funding memory, shaping networks: Normative memory entrepreneurs and the making of Memoria Abierta as a model	2
‘Sharing for the memories’: Contemporary conceptualizations of memories by young women	2
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism	2
Book review: Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age Miriam Llamas Ubieto and Johanna Vollmeyer (eds)	2
Revisiting memoricide: The everyday killing of memory	2
Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials	2
Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa	2
Remembering and forgetting famines in Ethiopia	2
From dinosaurs to nuclear fallout: Multiple temporalities of scale in memory studies	2
Walks, marches, parades: LGBT+ activist mnemonic labour in Argentina	2
Book review: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan	2
Shifting narratives of the Alta controversy: Innovations in memory studies using natural language processing	2
Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy	2
Remembering a Polish refugee camp in Mbala, Zambia: Community initiatives, excavations, museum exhibitions and local memories	2
Slow memory of deindustrialization in post-communist Albanian literature	2
Book review: Reparando mundos. Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal	2
Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film	2
Marielle restored? Mortuary graphisms, memory and ritual in intersectional and anti-racist responses to necropolitical violence in Rio de Janeiro	2
The policy of memory, commemoration, post-socialism? Remembering socialist modernisation in the Czech countryside	2
Path dependence in research on collective memory: Conceptual exploration and application perspectives	2
Remediating Holodomor photography: Frames of violence in the afterlives of famine	2
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’	2