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Collective Amnesia

Collective Amnesia is a theoretical construct in the study of National Memory that denotes the societal-level loss or suppression of shared historical knowledge, distinguished by the systematic disregard, distortion, or erasure of critical past events within a nation’s collective consciousness.

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78

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40

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2017–2026

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Publications

65

Remembering to Forget: Chosen Amnesia as a Strategy for Local Coexistence in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Susanne Buckley-Zistel · Africa · 2006 · 232 citations

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In praise of forgetting: historical memory and its ironies

Caleb Lauer · International Affairs · 2017 · 228 citations

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Countervisions: Asian American film criticism

Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 162 citations

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Remembering to Forget: Chosen Amnesia as a Strategy for Local Coexistence in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Susanne Buckley-Zistel · Africa · 2006 · 149 citations

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Collective Memory in a Global Age

Barbara A. Misztal · Current Sociology · 2010 · 124 citations

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Authors

78

  1. NS
    Nicholas Stern

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  2. SB
    Susanne Buckley-Zistel

    Philipps University of Marburg, Germany

    2 publications · 381 citations

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  3. RM
    Ruth Morello

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  4. TA
    Thomas A. Markus

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. KA
    Kimberly Alidio

    1 publications · 20 citations

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Institutions

40

  1. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    280 citations

  2. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    35 citations

  3. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    33 citations

  4. San Francisco State University

    San Francisco, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  5. University of South Africa

    Pretoria, South Africa

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  6. Alliant International University

    San Diego, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  7. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    42 citations

  8. Queen's University Belfast

    Belfast, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    72 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 330 citations

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  2. History and Memory

    2 publications · 94 citations

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  3. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

    2 publications · 21 citations

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  4. Africa

    2 publications · 381 citations

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  5. International Journal of Heritage Studies

    IJHS · 2 publications · 40 citations

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