Much of the debate on cultural memory has been shaped by the view, commonly held if not universal, that remembering and commemorating is usually a virtue and that forgetting is necessarily a failing. But this assumption is not self-evidently true. This article seeks, therefore, to disentangle the different types of acts that cluster together under…
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Memory Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration, Italian Fascism and Post-war Society, Anthropological Studies and Insights.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Memory Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration Italian Fascism and Post-war Society Anthropological Studies and Insights Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Vietnamese History and Culture Studies |
| ISSN | 1750-6980 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.08 |
| h-index | 62 |
| i10-index | 401 |
| Total citations | 18,287 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Utrecht University |
| Journal website | mss.sagepub.com |
| You get | A submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit. |
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In the present contribution, we examine the link between societal crisis situations and belief in conspiracy theories. Contrary to common assumptions, belief in conspiracy theories has been prevalent throughout human history. We first illustrate historical incidents suggesting that societal crisis situations—defined as impactful and rapid societal change that calls established power structures, norms of conduct,…
This article argues for the need for memory studies to go beyond its present focus on traumatic memories and to develop analytical tools for capturing the cultural transmission of positivity and the commitment to particular values. Building on an emerging interest in the relationship between memory and activism, it puts its case for a re-orientation…
This article discusses the symbiotic, though uneven, relationship linking scholarship on journalism and memory. Though work on collective memory has yet to recognize the centrality of journalism as an institution of mnemonic record, memory creeps into journalistic relay so often that it renders journalism's memory work both widespread and multi-faceted. This renders journalism a key…
Building on Mouffe’s critique of cosmopolitanism, this article argues that a cosmopolitan mode of remembering, far from having superseded the antagonistic mode associated with ‘first modernity’ in the European context, has proved unable to prevent the rise of, and is being increasingly challenged by, new antagonistic collective memories constructed by populist neo-nationalist movements. This article…