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Editorial
Introduction: Communities in flux across the globe
Published 2025
Memory studies, 18, 2, 345 - 353
Understanding the complex dynamics of community identities and processes of change through the prism of collective memory is a persistent concern for scholars in Memory Studies. Communities are continuously in flux: coming together and moving apart; welcoming new members and constructing new forms of belonging as they do so; but also creating new and resurgent forms of exclusion...
Editorial
Creatively imagining communities: The Communities and Change exhibition
Published 2025
Memory studies, 18, 2, 354 - 362
The imaginative, and often speculative, approaches afforded by creative inquiry enable creative practitioners to interpret memory in material and embodied ways that are not always easily translated into traditional journal articles. As a community of scholars, it is important that Memory Studies takes this kind of critical-creative inquiry seriously as contributions to the field – not (only) as objects of study from which meanings are extracted and interpreted in a quest to produce knowledge, but as alternative forms of research ‘output’, producing and displaying knowledge on and in its own terms. While they have not been able to be included within this special edition, many of the artists and filmmakers who produced work for the 2023 Memory Studies Association annual conference cultural programme engaged deeply with the complexities of community as a site of memory and a locus of change...