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Russian LGBT activism and the memory politics of sexual citizenship Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Pauline Stoltz, Anna Khlusova
This article discusses barriers to the citizen practices of Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in the memory politics of Russian sexual citizenship. Based on memories of activism, as told in interviews with Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists, we focus on how these memories play a role in their national and transnational struggles for sexual rights and recognition
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Book review: Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada Naomi Angel Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Audrey Rousseau
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Book review: Regions of Memory: Transnational Formations Simon Lewis, Jeffrey Olick, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Malgorzata Pakier (eds) Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kieran JH Shackleton
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Finding place in Northeast and Southeast Asia: Collective memory construction of the marginalized, disenfranchised, and dislocated Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Mary M McCarthy
This introductory article presents the frame and impetus for our special issue on collective memory construction of the marginalized, disenfranchised, and dislocated in Northeast and Southeast Asia. The objective of this article is to showcase this collection as in dialogue and to draw out some of the common themes, including speaking from the margins, the gatekeepers of public memory, the geopolitics
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Book review: Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice Jennifer Carter Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Robin Ostow
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Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sofía Forchieri
Over the past three decades, transnational feminist activist movements in Latin America have been struggling to construct collective subject positions from where to remember, bear witness to, and rally against feminicide. This article explores literature’s contribution to this broader process of feminist collective subjectivity formation. It does so by means of a reading of two recent yet already emblematic
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The Battle of Thakhek, 21 March 1946: Traces of a colonial massacre on the Lao–Thai border Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Vatthana Pholsena
This article explores the life of an event—a massacre during the First Indochina War on 21 March 1946 in Thakhek, Laos—in the border town of Nakhon Phanom in northeastern Thailand, to where most of the survivors fled. Ignored by Thai authorities and not memorialized in social practices, this event nevertheless continues to have significant impacts on local communities. This article draws on two key
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Libyan deportees on the Italian island of Ustica: Remembering colonial deportations in the (peripheral) metropole Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Galadriel Ravelli
In 1911, the Italian liberal government launched the colonial occupation of what is now known as Libya, which was met with unexpected local resistance. The government resorted to mass deportations to the metropole to sedate the resistance, which continued for more than two decades under both the liberal and Fascist regimes. This chapter of Europe’s and Italy’s colonial history has been almost entirely
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Shape of storage memory: A digital analysis of the museums’ storage of Northeast Europe Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Maija Spurina
Objects in museums’ storage constitute “storage memory” that sets the limits to our knowledge and interpretation of the past. Spread out across thousands of institutions, it has been inaccessible for empirical inquiry until recently. Theoretically, the digitization of museum catalogs allows the uniting of dispersed containers of institutional data into a vast connected digital archive, turning “storage
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Memories in between: Daughters from the Chilean diaspora in Sweden speak about their mothers Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Paulina de los Reyes, Diana Mulinari
While literature on memory and dictatorship in Latin America is extensive and narratives departing from the memories of children are evolving, the (gendered) intergenerational processes at the core of the experience of military terror, from the specific location of the diaspora, have so far been marginal in both research and in public debates. What is the language through which collective experiences
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Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Vasiliki Belia
Kate Charlesworth’s graphic narrative Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide (2019), part memoir and part documentary of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex life and activism in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2019, remembers the time when the LGBTQI+ and feminist movements met and influenced each other deeply, namely in lesbian feminism of the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on feminist historiography
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Near and far: Tracing memory and reframing presence in pandemic-era Argentina. Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Natasha Zaretsky
Memory has been a central foundation of democracy and civil society in Argentina since the first years of the military dictatorship (1976-1983) when groups occupied public spaces to protest systematic disappearances and state repression that left 30,000 victims. It has taken decades to achieve some form of justice for state terror and repression, much of that shaped by the culture of memory and accountability
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Remembering the victims of COVID-19: From personal to civic to reparative memory. Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 James E Young
In March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had exploded in New York City, across the country, and around the world. At its height, thousands of people were dying every day in quarantined intensive care units and Covid wards, their families forbidden from attending their loved ones' last living moments, even to say good-bye. The victims were dying in isolation, consigned to make-shift morgues, and buried
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From disenchantment to glory: Fluctuations in the memory of World War II in Japanese Cinema (1980–2020) Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Esteban Córdoba-Arroyo
In recent decades, the field of memory studies has shown increasing interest in the reconstruction of the past through the lens of cinema. The ongoing “war for memory” or “history problem,” as it i...
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Social fields, journalism, and collective memory: Reporting on the Armenian genocide in legal, political, and commemorative field events Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Miray Philips, Joachim J Savelsberg
Conflictual processes unfolding in legal and political social fields as well as commemorative events differentially shape social memories, including memories about genocides, in line with their rul...
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Memory dialogics: Scholastique Mukasonga’s literary renegotiation of Rwandan Genocide narratives Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Valerie Fryer-Davis
Many scholars have recently observed how the Rwandan State, led by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, relies on public memory after the 1994 Rwandan Genocide to categorize individuals based on gender and...
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The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Heather Burke, Lynley A Wallis, Nicholas Hadnutt, Iain Davidson, Galiina Ellwood, Lance Sullivan
The colonial history of nineteenth-century Queensland was arguably dominated by the actions of the Native Mounted Police, Australia’s most punitive native policing force. The centrality of the Nati...
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Public spaces and circumscribed spaces of the collective memory: A research on the location of commemorative monuments Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Pascal Moliner, Inna Bovina
This research presents three archival studies conducted on three different databases, on the location of memorials. Study 1 compares French monuments dedicated to the Wars of 1870–1871 (defeat) and...
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Memory practices ‘from below’: Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Claire Taylor
This article analyses the memory practices of Corporación Zoscua, a small, grassroots activist group in Colombia representing victims of the armed conflict within the region of Boyacá. After an ini...
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Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Katarina Ristić
The terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011 and New Zealand in 2019 have revealed that the far-right worldwide uses the memory of the Yugoslav wars for online mobilization. Scholars working on memory a...
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Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Gloria Román Ruiz
This article explores the echoes that resonate in the present of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) during the post-war period of Franco’s dictatorship. More specifically...
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The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Jieheerah Yun
This article analyzes the removal and restoration of the “Statues of Peace” in South Korea. Although the presence of the statues has generated political tensions, various attempts to take down the ...
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The shift in the regime of silence: Selective erasure of the 1965 massacre in post-New Order Indonesia’s official narrative Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Suzanna Eddyono
This study revisits the regime of silence surrounding the official representation of the Indonesian 1965 massacre after the collapse of Suharto’s New Order regime in 1998. Focusing on the education...
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Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Sina Arnold, Sebastian Bischoff
In this article, we apply Michael Rothberg’s concept of “multidirectional memory” to an empirical setting, by analyzing qualitative interviews with 124 educators in the field of memory work, such a...
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Creating memory of COVID-19: The actions of museums and archives in Spain Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Xavier Roigé, Alejandra Canals, Marta Rico
The COVID-19 pandemic is an historic event that has affected the entire world, but since it has been experienced differently in each country, locality and family, it will also be remembered in diff...
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The construction of family memory through activist engagement: The case of relatives of the disappeared in Spain Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Sélim Smaoui
Since the early 2000s, Spain has been shaken by mobilizations of “victims of Francoism,” promoting the memory of past violence. In this article, instead of apprehending such mobilizations as a sudd...
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Reconstructing the Turkish Jewish identity of Çanakkale between silence and speaking out: Nostalgia as an exit strategy Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Önder Cetin
This article analyzes the discursive strategies of the Turkish Jewish community of Çanakkale to make sense of their troubled memories resulting in a mass emigration. Considering the emphasis on sil...
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Memory as a means of governmentality Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Katrin Antweiler
The article proposes to pursue Memory Studies as Studies of Governmentality. It aims to demonstrate how an analysis of memory, undertaken from the perspective of governmentality, can provide an imp...
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Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ana Dragojlovic, CL Quinan
This review engages with the recent ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition (2020–2021), which was held at the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). By focusing on three arti...
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From Anne Lister to Gentleman Jack to Anne Lister Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Jennifer Reed
This essay explores the meaning of the representation of Anne Lister, historical figure (1791–1840), for contemporary audiences, in the 2019–2022 series Gentleman Jack. Produced by HBO and BBC, the...
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Travelling and multiscaler memory: Remembering East Timor’s Santa Cruz massacre from the transnational to the intimate Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Lia Kent
This article tracks the memory of East Timor’s Santa Cruz massacre across time and space, attending to the multiple scales at which it is imbued with meaning. While footage of the massacre initiall...
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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’ Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Hyun Kyung Lee, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Yujie Zhu
This article explores the use of the UNESCO Memory of the World programme in claims for recognition of atrocities, focusing on two recent nominations: Documents of Nanjing Massacre and Voices of th...
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An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ann Cvetkovich, Ana Dragojlovic, CL Quinan
Feminist and queer studies scholar Ann Cvetkovich’s trailblazing book An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures has had an immense influence on the field of memory stud...
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My autobiography of Reed Erickson, or, how to re-member a ghost Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 KJ Cerankowski
Transgender philanthropist Reed Erickson has gained the renewed attention of trans historians as more of his papers become available in multiple archives. While other scholars set out to piece toge...
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Queer collective memory during the time of COVID: Timelessness, isolation, and resilience in the United Kingdom Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Molly Merryman, Moira Armstrong
Oral history collections both rely on and preserve community memories, and are of importance for understanding marginalized communities, particularly when they privilege minority voices. This artic...
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On disobedient daughters of perpetrator fathers: ‘Transfilial’ activisms across the Argentine human rights movement Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Cecilia Sosa, Philippa Page
This piece explores why and how the praxis of disobedience, as articulated by the daughters of the perpetrators of state terrorism during Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976–1983), might be read as...
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Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Stefania Voli, Ludovico Virtù
In recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the relationship between history, memory, archiving and trans experiences. This body of work has shown how questioning the praxis of ...
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Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ana Dragojlovic, CL Quinan
This editorial introduction provides a theoretical framework for analyzing relationships between gender, sexuality, and memory. Using the concept of queering memory, the special issue proposes quee...
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HIV/AIDS in the context of a queer institution: The Schwules Museum, Berlin Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Heiner Schulze
Discourse and memory around AIDS have often centred on White gay cis-men in Europe and North America. This is reflected in the way the history of the virus is often told and how the memory of the d...
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An Instituting Archive for Memory Activism: The Archivo de la Memoria Trans de Argentina Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Daniele Salerno
This article introduces the concept of the instituting force of activist archives. It does so by analyzing the epistemological and ontological implications of describing and arranging archival mate...
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The grounds of Gallipoli: Earthy memory and the collapse of space and time Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Mads Daugbjerg, Christopher Whitehead
This article deals with the meanings and agencies of earth in the making of memory. We consider the role of the soil at the Gallipoli peninsula, in today’s Turkey, a key First World War battlefield...
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From hatred to hope: Emotions, memory and the German labour movement in the late-nineteenth century Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Philipp Reick
Over the past few years, scholars from a broad range of disciplines have started to explore the role that emotions play in the collective memory of social movements. Against this backdrop, they hav...
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The exodus memory community: Leveraging oral history records to understand collected memories of violence Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Allan A Martell
Memories about historical episodes of violence are a window not only into experiences of people’s past struggles but also about their aspirations for the future. In this article, I focus on memorie...
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Notes towards a historical, critical theory of memory constellations: Postcolonial nationalist memory in Michael Anthony’s King of the Masquerade Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Jarula MI Wegner
The historical and critical theory of memory constellations addresses two challenges in cultural memory studies: the detachment of memories from socio-historical contexts and the risk of critical c...
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Challenges of antagonistic memory: Scholars versus politics and war Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Georgiy Kasianov
The essay reflects the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on memory studies. The politics of remembrance has become an integral part of the war, and scholars find themselves in a situation wher...
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Between discovery and exploitation of history: Lay theories of history and their connections to national identity and interest in history Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Adrian Dominik Wójcik, Maria Lewicka
One of the distinctions in modern historiography is that between collective memory and history. Although ideal historical research is presented as objective and driven by the search for accuracy, c...
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Mnemonic land war: Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Miranda Meyer, Stefan Norgaard
Although Lebanon and South Africa are often treated as exceptional cases, the use of geographic analogies like ‘bantustans’ and ‘Lebanonization’ signals their relevance to many other places. These ...
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Lived multidirectionality: “Historikerstreit 2.0” and the politics of Holocaust memory Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Michael Rothberg
This essay assesses the acrimonious debates about Holocaust memory that took place in Germany in 2020–2021 and that have come to be known as Historikerstreit 2.0. These debates call up older contro...
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‘Did my grandfather storm the beaches of Normandy for this shit?’ Mnemonic wars and digital games Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Martin Tschiggerl
In the last 40 years, digital games have become an important negotiating space for experiencing historical worlds, and games with historical content enjoy an exceptionally high level of popularity....
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Memory, counter-memory and denialism: How search engines circulate information about the Holodomor-related memory wars Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa
Search engines, such as Google or Yandex, shape social reality by informing their users about current and historical phenomena. However, there is little research on how search engines deal with con...
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Media-generated characteristics of Homeland War–related commemorations in Croatia Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Metod Šuligoj, Elena Rudan
This study contributes to literature concerning memory and dark tourism by providing empirical evidence about the link between commemorations and the news media in a post-conflict and tourism-depen...
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‘There is no room in our city for hate’: The re-emerged debates over the current and former place name of a Canadian city Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Jason F Kovacs
In 1916, Berlin, Ontario, disappeared off the map through a controversial vote. In its place came a new toponym named after British Secretary of State for War, Horatio Herbert Kitchener. Over a cen...
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Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Małgorzata Łukianow, Chloe Wells
Forced border changes and population transfers have affected many nation-states. However, memories of these events are usually described as part of a “unique” national memory of cartographic violen...
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Recalling the Hunger Winter: Evoking famine memory beyond the national Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Ingrid de Zwarte, Lindsay Janssen
This article seeks to demonstrate how hunger legacies function as connecting vectors in later times. By investigating the comparative uses of memory in Dutch newspapers in the period 1945–1995, it ...
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Dancing through time: A methodological exploration of embodied memories Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Julia Giese, Emily Keightley
This article responds to an absence of memory studies research methodologies for exploring embodied memories, including its form and content, the lived practices it involves, and its embeddedness i...
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Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Jonas Prinzleve
This article illustrates the predicaments of self-acclaimed global cities that come under pressure to decolonise heritage practices. Examining the politics of public memory in post-imperial Hamburg...
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Memorials from the perspective of experience: A comparison of Spain’s Valley of the Fallen to contemporary counter-memorials Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Ignacio Brescó de Luna, Brady Wagoner
Memorials are cultural artifacts constructed to mediate memory for a shared past. But as such, they require people’s active engagement with them, which can generate divergent experiences and interp...
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The intergenerational hero: Carrier of a bonding memory Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Efrat Ben-Ze’ev, Edna Lomsky-Feder
In the present era of fragmentation and instability, there is an urge to recreate “islands of solidarity,” sometimes by establishing what we define as “intergenerational heroes.” They are expected ...
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Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Fernanda Amaral
This article starts from the notion of collective memory as a source of power and meaning and draws from the concepts of activist memory to reflect on the existence of a racialised regime of memory...
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Lack of bump in public events when recent events prevail Memory Studies (IF 1.053) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Sezin Öner, Sami Gülgöz
Reminiscence bump refers to the increased recall of events from adolescence and early adulthood. It is a robust phenomenon for personal events, while the evidence for the bump has been inconsistent...