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Open research questions in Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

63 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 5,542 Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Abstract Online review platforms such as TripAdvisor remain an underexplored resource in both cultural anthropological and historical research into the experience of cultural heritage.

    Tourist Experience, Digital Memory and Nazi Heritage · 2025 · DOI

  • But if the direct experience of socialist internationalism was limited to a privileged few, how then was it experienced by the majority, for whom actual travel outside of their state was a distant possibility? This issue explores how socialist internationalism and its attendant practices of solidarity functioned within and between socialist societies.

    Introduction to Everyday Internationalism: Socialist–South Connections and Mass Culture during the Cold War · 2024 · DOI

  • The paper answers Horton’s (2019) call for greater engagement with media and popular culture by foregrounding radio as an understudied medium with the capacity to shape listeners’ geographical imaginations.

    Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear: imaginative geographies of a Syrian family’s migration to Europe on BBC Radio 4 · 2023 · DOI

  • 5 When compared to recent advancements in Lost [End Page 163] Cause studies, and considering its oversized impact on the nation's politics, economics, culture, and social scene, the GAR remains understudied in Reconstruction, Gilded Age, and Progressive Era histories, outside the efforts of a handful of historians.

    Memorial Day's Interracial Legacy in Brooklyn, New York, 1878–1897 · 2023 · DOI

  • Although the preponderance of collective memory research focuses on particular cultural repository sites, memorials, traumatic events, media channels, texts, or commemorative rituals as objects of study, this article fills a gap in literature by arguing that it is time to refresh established media-memory studies to now also consider how multimodal practices promise insight into the process of shared remembering in the new media ecology.

    Repertoires of Remembering: A Conceptual Approach for Studying Memory Practices in the Digital Ecosystem · 2019 · DOI

  • the respondents' competence level in the volume and depth of historical memory, all survey respondents were classified into three major groups: 1) experts (knowledgeable about the subject of our study), 2) improvisers (respondents who showed interest in the subject of our study but were scarcely competent in historical materials) and 3) ignoramuses (respondents who showed negative or indifferent attitudes to the research of the sacred landscape monuments).

    Sacred Landscape in Modern Russia’s Cultural and Historical Policy Through the Eyes of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Residents · 2017 · DOI

  • While gardens are a popular location for diplomatic performances—for example, the Treaty of Versailles—the global politics of gardens remains underresearched in international relations (IR).

    Cultivating Power: Gardens in the Global Politics of Diplomacy, War, and Peace · 2017 · DOI

  • Is the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin a Jewish space? How are Jews presented there? What are the points of interest about Jews in the memorial from the perspective of the foundation that runs it as well as from various visitors' perspectives? This article focuses on interaction and performance at the memorial, an understudied topic in comparison to what the memorial presents in its installation and the debates that preceded its realisation.

    Jews and Other Others at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin · 2014 · DOI

  • The second is a project slated to open in 2012, that tells the story of abolition in Brooklyn through an ambitious partnership that will bring important but little known local history into the public sphere, and provide multiple platforms for community discourse about the meaning of history in our present day lives.

    Experiments in Making History Personal · 2010 · DOI

  • Despite the abundant scholarship on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the memoropolitics entailed by testimonial accounts of trauma and genocide, little is known of the everyday experience of trauma survivors and their descendants.

    Toward an Ethnography of Silence · 2009 · DOI

  • Subjective information about the past still remains to be very important, and, when isolated, could be used for the interpretation of how people of the past viewed the world around them, and especially how they reacted to the social processes in their everyday life, to the decisions they had made and also how they identified themselves with the social milieu in the long term (group identity, political orientation, values and norms preference).

    Svět přeživších Židů · 2008 · DOI

  • This excursion was limited to a visit to the Museum Island, to tourist attractions in the inner city, to a visit to the Soviet memorial in Treptau, and a snack in the Hotel Berlin, with the requisite quantity of propagandist clichés from the assigned guide, and then finally back home in early afternoon in a closed group to West Berlin.

    A Challenge: Confrontation or Encounter between the Educational Systems of East and West? · 1991 · DOI

  • Does not this point to the element of netzah yisrael? WHEN THE LITTLE known German cor- poral declared war on the Jewish people in his Mein Kampf, no one seemed to take him seriously.

    The ‘Shoah’ and the Jewish School · 1964 · DOI

  • It remains to be seen whether the hustlers, mercenaries and soldiers of fortune who usually appear in this type of conflict, drifting in from places like Syria or Iraq, will also join.

    Contingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press · 2026 · DOI

  • Dark tourism communication in Eastern Europe remains insufficiently examined, despite the region’s complex post-authoritarian memory landscape and the growing use of storytelling in tourism marketing.

    Dark Tourism Storytelling and Trauma Narratives: Insights from Romanian Promotional (Tourism) Campaigns · 2026 · DOI

  • The history of the Holocaust in the urban space of Eastern Europe remains insufficiently studied, particularly at the level of individual local sites of Nazi terror.

    A New Look at the Yaniv Concentration Camp. Book Review: Beorn W. W. Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. 361 p. · 2026 · DOI

  • The review concludes that Beorn’s work constitutes a significant contribution to the study of the Holocaust in Ukraine, as it fills an important gap in research on the Yaniv concentration camp.

    A New Look at the Yaniv Concentration Camp. Book Review: Beorn W. W. Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. 361 p. · 2026 · DOI

  • Analyzing documents produced under extreme historical violence poses methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges that remain insufficiently theorized in qualitative inquiry.

    Dwelling With the Letters: Methodological and Epistemological Dilemmas in a Qualitative Analysis of the Correspondence of Jewish Internees From the Drancy Camp · 2026 · DOI

  • While scientific explanations of the transfer of individual episodic memories remain elusive, cultural wisdom offers insights into the lived experiences and phenomenological realities of memory transmission.

    Echoes in the Bone and Blood: Adlerian Approaches to Cultural Postmemories · 2025 · DOI

  • ABSTRACT This article explores the understudied critical issue of life under military occupation, focusing on Berdiansk (Ukraine), a peaceful resort city now under occupation.

    Beneath the Silence: The Hidden Struggles of Occupied Cities · 2025 · DOI

  • Finnish folklore archives contain a wealth of information about revered or sacred sites of folk belief, the locations of which have not been thoroughly studied before.

    Constitutional Landmarks: Revered Sites of South-West Finnish Folklore and Social Space-Making · 2025 · DOI

  • This study delves into the transnational mobility of migrants from the Horn of Africa, exploring the limited situated ethnographies on survivors-at-home, a topic still underexplored.

    Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy · 2024 · DOI

  • The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confined conditions of their internment, but the guards were also limited by their duties in their assignment to this remote location, though all also saw the camp within its wider island landscape setting.

    PLACEMAKING AT LES BLANCHES BANQUES, JERSEY’S FIRST WORLD WAR PRISONER OF WAR CAMP: NESTED LANDSCAPES OF INTERNEES AND GUARDS · 2023 · DOI

  • Initiatives were undertaken in some areas to safeguard antiquities, but were lacking in others, and some Syrians were themselves involved in plundering and destruction actions.

    Exploring reasons for divergent local communities’ responses to antiquities preservation during conflict in the northwest of Syria – 2014-2023 · 2023 · DOI

  • As yet, however, there was insufficient work to analyse the relationship between retrospective and prospective memory especially in collaborative journalistic cultures where one might expect the importance of prospective memory to be significant.

    Anniversary Journalism in China: Mediated Memories of the Second World War · 2022 · DOI

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