Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal - Volume 4, Issue 0, 2024

Abstract The event-based focus of much memory studies scholarship appears to centre the field on ruptures, and yet theories of cultural memory also consider how those ruptures are used to foster continuities of meaning and experience. In this paper, we aim to draw out this apparent tension between rupture and continuity and connect this to the emerging concept of “slow memory” (Wüstenberg 2023). Read More