Recent national protests regarding civil war monuments, lively public debates about history on traditional and new media, political discourse on history curriculums, revision of local and national public policies of commemoration, increased attention on museums and other places of
memory, the media productions of historical pieces, and the remakes of many classic films, - altogether can be best understood as a collective effort to confront our hurtful pasts. And — as an effort to amend them.
For this Special Issue, we are seeking studies guided by the following broad question: How are material and symbolic communication approaches working towards amending our hurtful pasts?
We encourage submissions of research conducted from Native and Indigenous, African American, rural, urban, Latina co-cultures, and immigrant’s perspectives.
We are looking for scholarly work that examines various aspects of memory infrastructure without preference on methodological approach.
Ideally, topics must address approaches to various mediums of memory infrastructure (discourse,
museums, places, and policy) such as:
➢ Public and political discourse
➢ Protests and memory activism
➢ Museums, monuments, and places of memory
➢ Social media and digital streaming platforms
➢ Public policy on remembrance/commemoration
➢ Media productions, collective guilt, and regret
➢ Nostalgia and politics of forgetting
➢ Cultural, local, and group memory
➢ Memory in national and international contexts
