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Disappearances, dissident memory and magic: Sandya Ekneligoda’s struggle for justice 失踪、持不同政见者的记忆和魔法：桑迪亚-埃克内里戈达争取正义的斗争

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241241591

Chulani Kodikara

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Private museum as public space: Local remembering and memory politics in Yan’an, China 作为公共空间的私人博物馆：中国延安的地方记忆与记忆政治

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241240718

Yujie Zhu

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Memory, activism and the arts in Asia and the Pacific 亚太地区的记忆、行动主义和艺术

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241243037

Shameem Black, Rosanne Kennedy, Lia Kent

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Book review: Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile 书评移动的记忆：后专制时代智利的巴勒斯坦记忆

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241239900a

Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley

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Contentious vulnerability: The case of Rwandan genocide memorials 有争议的脆弱性：卢旺达种族灭绝纪念馆案例

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241255073

Lucy Britt

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Mnemonic reciprocity: Activating Sydney’s Comfort Women statue for decolonial memory 记忆互惠：激活悉尼慰安妇雕像，促进非殖民化记忆

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241243039

Sulamith Graefenstein, Rosanne Kennedy

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Songs from another land: Decolonizing memories of colonialism and the nutmeg trade 来自另一片土地的歌声殖民主义和肉豆蔻贸易的非殖民化记忆

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241242388

Katharine McGregor, A. Dragojlovic

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The dead as memory workers 死者是记忆工作者

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241240715

Lia Kent

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The Bangsokol Requiem, affective intensification, and memory activation 班索科尔安魂曲、情感强化和记忆激活

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241241589

Rachel Hughes

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Monuments and ‘nonuments’: A typology of the forgotten memoryscape 纪念碑与 "非纪念碑"：被遗忘的记忆景观类型学

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980241255079

Elizabeth Benjamin

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