Memory Studies
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Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. It affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today.
Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourses on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
Despite the epistemological and causal significance attributed to memory in the study of such questions as the formation of personal and public identity, culture and politics, and social communities, there remains dramatic divergence on the basic concepts and methods of the area.
The field mobilises scholarship driven by problem or topic, rather than by singular method or tradition. We seek papers that highlight and deliberately negotiate divergence in backgrounds and assumptions, as opposed to those that avoid these issues.
Crucially, we welcome submissions which speak to a range of participants across memory studies.
Areas of dialogue and debate will include:
- Everyday remembering
- Collective, public, social and shared memory
- Biography and history
- Schema and narrative
- The ethics of remembering and forgetting
- Commemoration and remembrance
- Organic and artificial memory
- Media and mechanisms
- Documentation and archive
- Holocaust memory
- Cosmopolitanism and globalization
- Cultural memory and heritage
- Catastrophe and trauma
- Nation and nostalgia
- Oral history and the culture of the witness
- Memory and the politics of identity
Books for Review
Copies of books for review should be sent to:
Amy Sodaro
Borough of Manhattan Community College - Social Sciences
199 Chambers Street
N668 New York, NY 10007 USA
Sacha van Leeuwen
Bilderdijkkade 55-1v
1053 VJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: memorystudiesbookreviews@gmail.com
Electronic Access:
Memory Studies is now available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
Memory Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal. Memory Studies affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today.
Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourse on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
Despite the epistemological and causal significance attributed to memory in the study of such questions as the formation of personal and public identity, culture and politics, and social communities, there remains dramatic divergence on the basic concepts and methods of the area.
The field mobilises scholarship driven by problem or topic, rather than by singular method or tradition. We seek papers that highlight and deliberately negotiate divergence in backgrounds and assumptions, as opposed to those that avoid these issues.
Crucially, we welcome submissions which speak to a range of participants across memory studies. As a way to facilitate/develop dialogues and communication across a range of disciplines, we also welcome overviews of current thinking or perspectives on particular aspects of memory.
Areas of dialogue and debate include:
- Everyday remembering
- Collective, public, social and shared memory
- Biography and history
- Schema and narrative
- The ethics of remembering and forgetting
- Phenomenology of memory
- Commemoration and remembrance
- Organic and artificial memory
- Media and mechanisms
- Documentation and archive
- Holocaust memory
- Cosmopolitanism and globalization
- Cultural memory and heritage
- Memory and the creative arts
- Memory in cognitive theory
- Cognition and culture
- Catastrophe and trauma
- Nation and nostalgia
- Oral history and the culture of the witness
- Social cognition and memory
- Memory and the politics of identity
- Cultural neuroscience and memory
- Philosophy of memory
| Prof Andrew Hoskins | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Prof Steven D. Brown | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Dr Andrea Hajek | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Prof Wulf Kansteiner | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Dr Amy Sodaro | Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, USA |
| Prof Jarula M. I. Wegner | Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China |
| Paloma Aguilar | UNED, Spain |
| Matthew Allen | University of Leicester, UK |
| Aleida Asmann | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Jan Asmann | Universität Konstanz, Germany |
| Mieke Bal | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Suzanne Bardgett | Imperial War Museum London, UK |
| Amanda Barnier | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Rosmarie Beier-de Haan | Deutsches Historisches Museum, Germany |
| Andrew Blaikie | University of Aberdeen, UK |
| Dr Lucy Bond | University of Westminster, UK |
| Jerome Bourdon | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Geoffrey C Bowker | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Pascal Boyer | Washington University in St Louis, USA |
| Michael Brennan | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| John D. Brewer | Aberdeen University, UK |
| Mary Carruthers | New York University, USA |
| Martin Conboy | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Paul Connerton | Cambridge University, UK |
| Dr Stef Craps | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Stuart Croft | University of Warwick, UK |
| Rick Crownshaw | Goldsmiths College, UK |
| Erika Doss | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Douwe Draaisma | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Jenny Edkins | Aberystwyth University, UK |
| Astrid Erll | Bergische Universität, Germany |
| Gary Alan Fine | Northwestern University |
| Robyn Fivush | Emory University, USA |
| Saul Friedländer | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Joanne Garde-Hansen | University of Warwick, UK |
| Sarah Gensburger | CNRS-French National Center for Scientific Research |
| Paul Grainge | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Ann Gray | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Patrick Hagopian | Lancaster University, UK |
| Ann Heilmann | University of Hull, UK |
| Marianne Hirsch | New York University, USA |
| William Hirst | New School for Social Research, USA |
| Katharine Hodgkin | University of East London, UK |
| Amy Holdsworth | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Andreas Huyssen | Columbia University, USA |
| Gregory V Jones | University of Warwick, UK |
| Carolyn Kitch | Temple University, USA |
| Annette Kuhn | Lancaster University, UK |
| Alison Landsberg | George Mason University, USA |
| Daniel Levy | State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA |
| Nuria Lorenzo-Dus | Swansea University, UK |
| Peter Lunt | University of Leicester, UK |
| Sharon Macdonald | Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany |
| Dr Peter Manning | University of Bath, UK |
| Maryanne Martin | Oxford University, UK |
| Rhiannon Mason | University of Newcastle, UK |
| Scott McQuire | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Kourken Michaelian | University of Otago, New Zealand |
| Barbara Misztal | University of Leicester, UK |
| A. Dirk Moses | The City College of New York, USA |
| Katharina Niemeyer | University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada |
| Jeffrey Olick | University of Virginia, USA |
| Michael Pickering | Loughborough University, UK |
| Martin Pogacar | Research centre of the Slovenian Academy of sciences and arts |
| Wendy Pullan | Cambridge University, UK |
| Susannah Radstone | University of East London, UK |
| Dr Jessica Rapson | King’s College London, UK |
| Anna Reading | King's College London, UK |
| Prof. Paula Reavey | London South Bank University, UK |
| Elaine Reese | University of Otago, New Zealand |
| Ann Rigney | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Michael Rothberg | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| David C Rubin | Duke University, USA |
| Bill Schwarz | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Liz Stanley | Manchester University, UK |
| Kate Stevens | Western Sydney University, Australia |
| Charles Stone | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA |
| Marita Sturken | New York University, USA |
| John Sutton | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Diana Taylor | New York University, USA |
| Richard Terdiman | University of California, Santa Cruz, USA |
| Karen Till | Maynooth University, Ireland |
| José Van Dijck | University of Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Kimberley Wade | Warwick University, UK |
| Qi Wang | Cornell University, USA |
| Harald Welzer | Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Germany |
| James V Wertsch | Washington University, USA |
| Jay Winter | Association for Psychological Science, USA |
| James E Young | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Barbie Zelizer | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Eviatar Zerubavel | Rutgers University, USA |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Memory Studies
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MSS to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Memory Studies will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper
1.4 Special Issues - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 Sage Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to Memory Studies, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Articles should be between 6000 and 8000 words including notes and references and must be accompanied with a 150 word abstract and up to six key words.
Book reviews should be between 800 and 1500 words.
Suggestions for commentary pieces and works which fall outside of the parameters set out above are welcome, but please send suggestions in the first instance to: memorystudiesjournal@gmail.com
Crucially, we welcome submissions which speak to a range of participants across Memory Studies.
Areas of dialogue and debate in Memory Studies include but are not confined to:
Everyday remembering
- Collective, public, social and shared memory
- Biography and history
- Schema and narrative
- The ethics of remembering and forgetting
- Commemoration and remembrance
- Organic and artificial memory
- Media and mechanisms
- Documentation and archive
- Holocaust memory
- Cosmopolitanism and globalization
- Cultural memory and heritage
- Catastrophe and trauma
- Nation and nostalgia
- Oral history and the culture of the witness
- Memory and the politics of identity
Books for Review
Copies of books for review should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Jarula M. I. Wegner,
Dong 5-101, School of International Studies,
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China (Postcode: 310058)
Email: memorystudiesbookreviews@gmail.com
Book Reviews:
We do not accept unsolicited book review essays.
The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
1.4 Special Issues
Memory Studies accepts proposals for special issues. Before submitting your proposal please review the journal guidelines.
Sage does not permit the use of author-suggested (recommended) reviewers at any stage of the submission process, be that through the web-based submission system or other communication. Reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Our policy is that reviewers should not be assigned to a paper if:
• The reviewer is based at the same institution as any of the co-authors
• The reviewer is based at the funding body of the paper
• The author has recommended the reviewer
• The reviewer has provided a personal (e.g. Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) email account and an institutional email account cannot be found after performing a basic Google search (name, department and institution).
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
2.3.1 Third party submissions
Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:
- Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
- Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
- Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.
Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests
Memory Studies encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the Sage Journal Author Gateway.
Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Memory Studies and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Sage’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the Sage Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Memory Studies offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Memory Studies adheres to the Sage Harvard reference style. View the Sage Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the Sage Harvard EndNote output file.
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Please ensure that the article follows the journal’s reference guidelines and order of presentation:
- full article title
- abstract (maximum 150 words)
- keywords (maximum 6): in alphabetical order for searching online, preferably not words already in the title
- article word count (including notes and references)
- [article]
- endnotes
- references
Figures, charts and tables created in MS Word should be included in the main text rather than at the end of the document. Figures and other files created outside Word (e.g. JPG, TIFF) should be submitted separately. In those cases, please add a placeholder note in the running text (i.e. “[insert Figure 1 here]”), followed by the relative caption.
Memory Studies is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MSS to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the Sage Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the Sage Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
Sage provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Memory Studies editorial office as follows: