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Publications 2026

Boyd, E., & Merrill, S. (2026). The digital multidirectionality of anniversaries: 7 October 1944/2023, Catch-22 commemoration and the comparative instrumentalization of Holocaust memory on X. Memory, Mind & Media, 5, e9. https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2026.10032

Eriksson, K. and Meier, M. (2026) Posted pasts. Strategic uses of the past in the 2022 Danish and Swedish national election campaigns on Facebook. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 8 (1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2026-0001

Farrell-Banks, D. & Merrill, S. (2026). The nostalgic (de)legitimation of sportswashing: Social media and legacy media reactions to the Saudi Arabian state takeover of Newcastle United. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 8(1), 81-98. https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2026-0005.

Ignatova, P. (2026). The Legend of the Serra Revisited: Identifying the Composite Creature. Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 15(1), 127-158. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979703.

Kilic, O. (2026). Resistance through counter-archives: Lubunya digital platforms and imaginaries of radical hope. In M. Liinason, S. Khosravi Ooryad, & O. Kilic (Eds.) Feminist and Queer Imaginaries of Hope in a Turbulent Era. (p.125-142) Edward Elgar. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/feminist-and-queer-imaginaries-of-hope-in-a-turbulent-era-9781035336838.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqpvHIei5u9HIqS6m_VPNrdbUmFYmOMCnTYvPJXzRG21FicfKkW

Liinason, M., Khosravi Ooryad, S., Kilic, O., & Proctor, H. (2026). Epilogue: Conversation on hope and despair. In M. Liinason, S. Khosravi Ooryad, & O. Kilic (Eds.), Feminist and queer imaginaries of hope in a turbulent era. (p.327-339). Edward Elgar. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/feminist-and-queer-imaginaries-of-hope-in-a-turbulent-era-9781035336838.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqpvHIei5u9HIqS6m_VPNrdbUmFYmOMCnTYvPJXzRG21FicfKkW

Publications 2025

Fälton, E., & Ignatova, P. (2025) Staying away from Cthulhu rather than Embracing the Cthulhucene: Representations of Relationships between the Human and the Non-Human in Netflix’s The Sea Beast, in Kosatica, M., & Smith, S.P. (eds.), Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication (pp.240–58). Routledge. https:// doi.org/10.4324/9781032719214_18

Gillette, M. B., & Boyd, E. (2025). Mining heritage gone wrong: A study of disappointed tourists at China’s national mine parks. Tourism Recreation Research, 50(4), 743–754. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2024.2343630

Ignatova, P., & Fälton, E. (2025). Nordic Myths Exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli in Östersund, Sweden, Part I: Nature, Medievalism, and The Construction of Space. Enarratio 25, 47-78. https://doi.org/10.18061/1811/106545

Ignatova, P. (2025). Human-Fish Relationship in Medieval Literature for Younger Audiences’, Interspecies Relations in Children’s Cultures, Conference June 13–15 2023, Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 206, 33–42. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp206.33-42

Merrill, S., Makhortykh, M., Mandolessi, S., Richardson-Walden, V. G., Smit, R., & Wang, Q. (2025). Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies. Memory, Mind & Media, 4, e18. doi:10.1017/mem.2025.10018

Merrill, S. (2025). Hybrid methodologies for studying social and cultural memory in the post-digital age. Q.Wang & A. Hoskins (Eds.), In The Remaking of Memory in the Age of Social Media and the Internet (pp.241-256), Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197661260.003.0015

Merrill, S. (2025). ‘Splintering’ the Memory-Activism Nexus: State and Market Forces in the Vortex of Civic Memory. In A. Erll, S. Knittel & J. Wüstenberg (Ed.), Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization: Doing Memory Studies With Ann Rigney (pp. 361-368). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111439273-051

Souza, M. (2025). Space-time, pace and peace: theorising from post-war Mostar. Peacebuilding, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2025.2512701

Publications 2024

Gillette, M. B., & Boyd, E. (2024). Mining for tourists in China: a digital ethnography of user-generated content from coal mining heritage parks. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 19(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2255691

Jethro, D., and Merrill. S. (2024). ‘Next stop Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse’: Place names, (de)commemoration and memory activism in Berlin, in Gensburger, S., and Wüstenberg, J., (eds), (De)commemoration: Making sense of contemporary calls for tearing down statues and renaming places (pp. 210-220), Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805391081-024

Lingold, M. C., Wyatt, C., Onciul, B., Everson, A., Luria, J. N., Zabalueva, O., Webb, M. R., Kim, S., & Selwood, S. (2024). Review Essays: Our Colonial Inheritance; The Loud Archive: Love & Loss and the Critical Theory of Emotion and Affect; The Northwest Coast Hall Reimagined; The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do; Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums; The Weave of “Fashion Diplomacy”; Interpreting Africa in South Korea; Ecological Art Exhibitions in London. Museum Worlds, 12(1), 181-240. Retrieved Mar 13, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.3167/armw.2024.120117

Merrill, S. (2024). Remembering the building blocks of socialism: The material and mediatized (n)ostalgia of East German plastic construction toys. In Schofield, J., Praet, E., Godin, G., and Petursdottir, T., (eds), The Routledge Handbook on Archaeology and Plastics (pp.371-384), Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003272311-25

Merrill, S. (2024). Remembering like a state: Surveillance databases, digital activist traces and the repressive potential of mediated prospective memory. Memory Studies, 17(5), 1177-1194. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241262187

Merrill, S. (2024). The state of (and in) memory activism research: A review of The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism, Memory Studies, 17(5), 1235-1238. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241261965

Merrill, S., & Rigney, A. (2024). Remembering activism: Means and ends. Memory Studies, 17(5), 997-1003. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241262390

Smit, R., Smits, T., & Merrill, S. (2024). Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency: Recalling Twentieth Century Activists with ChatGPT. Memory Studies Review, 1(2), 209-230. https://doi.org/10.1163/29498902-202400015

Souza, M. de A. C. (2024) Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar. Political Geography, 115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103197

Publcations 2023

Boyd, E. (2023). Memorialisation and its denial: slow resistance through derealisation in Kiruna, Sweden. Journal of Political Power, 16(2), 158–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2023.2251110

Merrill, S. (2023). Memory, Iconicity, and Virality in Action: Exploring Protest Photos Online. In A. Rigney & T. Smits (Ed.), The Visual Memory of Protest (pp 133-156), Amsterdam University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723275_ch06

Merrill, S. (2023). Artificial intelligence and social memory: Towards the cyborgian remembrance of an advancing mnemo-technic. In S. Lindgren (Ed.), Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence (pp.173-186), Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928562.00020

Neidhardt-Mokoena, A.,and Wiltse, H.(2023) Generous crowdedness: Cultivating space(s) for care at alternative design museums, in Holmlid, S., Rodrigues, V., Westin, C., Krogh, P. G., Mäkelä, M., Svanaes, D., Wikberg-Nilsson, Å (eds.), Nordes 2023: This Space Intentionally Left Blank, 12-14 June, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2023.72

Zabalueva, O. (2023). "Not All Museums": Memory, politics, and museum activism on the move, Linköping University. https://doi.org/10.3384/9789180752947

Publications 2022

Ignatova, P. (2022). Introduction: Of water and monsters. Shima, 16(2), 1–6. 10.21463/shima.182

Richardson-Little, N., Merrill, S., & Arlaud, L. (2022). Far-right anniversary politics and social media: The Alternative for Germany’s contestation of the East German past on Twitter. Memory Studies, 15(6), 1360–1377. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221133518

Zabalueva, O. (2022). Multimedia Historical Parks and the Heritage-based ‘Regime of Truth’ in Russia, Culture Unbound, 14(2), pp. 83–106. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.3975

Publications 2021

Closs Stephens, A., Coward, M., Merrill, S., and Sumartojo, S. (2021). Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense, International Political Sociology, 15(1), 22-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaa020

Merrill, S. (2021). Buffing and Buffering Blu: The Societal Performance of Street Art, Heritage Erasure and Digital Preservation in Berlin, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(6) : 601-616. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1843522

Merrill, S & Lindgren, S. (2021). Memes, brands and the politics of post-terror togetherness: following the Manchester bee after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, Information, Communication & Society, 24:16, 2403-2421 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1942957

Publications 2020

Ignatova, P. (2020). The Undead: Ghosts and Revenants, in Tingle, E., & Booth, P. (eds.), A Companion to Death, Burial and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1300–1700 (pp. 418–38) Brill.

Merrill, S., Keightley, E., and Daphi, P., (Eds.) (2020). Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6

Merrill, S. (2020). Following the Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Anti-fascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph. In Merrill, S., Keightley, E., and Daphi, P., (eds) Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan, 111-39. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_5

Merrill, S., Keightley, E., & Daphi, P. (2020). The Digital Memory Practices of Social Movements: Claiming, Circulating and Curating. In Merrill, S., Keightley, E., and Daphi, P., (eds.), Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_1

Richardson-Little, N., & Merrill, S. (2020). Who Is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media. In Merrill, S., Keightley, E., and Daphi, P., (eds) Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance, Palgrave Macmillan, 59-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_3

Merrill, S. (2020a). Sweden Then vs. Sweden Now: The Memetic Normalisation of Far-Right Nostalgia, First Monday, 25(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i6.10552

Merrill, S., & Lindgren, S. (2020). The Rhythms of Social Movement Memories: The Mobilization of Silvio Meier ’s Activist Remembrance Across Platforms, Social Movement Studies, 19(5-6), 657-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2018.1534680

Merrill, S., Sumartojo, S., Closs Stephens, A., and Coward, M. (2020). Togetherness after Terror: The More or Less Digital Commemorative Public Atmospheres of the Manchester Arena Bombing’s First Anniversary, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(3), 546-566. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819901146

Publications 2019

Merrill, S. (2019). Walking Together? The Mediatised Performative Commemoration of 7/7’s Tenth Anniversary, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 20(10), 1360-1378. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884917738414

Merrill, S. (2019). Thinking volumetrically about urban memory. In De Nardi, S., Orange, H., Koskinen-Koivisto, E., Drozdzewski, D., & High, S., Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place, (pp. 223-232), Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780815354260-26

Publications 2018

Ignatova, P. (2018). Moving between Life and Death: Horror Films and the Medieval Walking Corpse, in Gerzic, M., & Norrie, A. (eds.), From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (67-81) Routledge.

Merrill, S. (2018) The Dead Are Coming: Political Performance Art, Activist Remembrance and Dig(ital) Protests. In Breed, A., and Prentki, T., (eds.), Performance and Civic Engagement, (pp. 159-186) Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66517-7_10

Souza, M. de A. C. (2018). The heritage of European International Society in multidimensional peace operations: Liberia as a case study. Conjuntura Global, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v7i2.60116

Latest update: 2026-03-19