Memory studies is a nascent and multidisciplinary research field, drawing from an impressive array of qualitative investigative methods deployed to do memory research. The authors in this collection offer an explicit engagement with the ‘doing’ of memory research.

Chapter 1. Advancing Memory Methods.- Chapter 2. Sensory Impact: Memory, Affect and Sensory Ethnography at Official Memory Sites.- Chapter 3. Using Emplaced Ethnography, Mobility and Listening to Research Memory.- Chapter 4. Biosensing: A Critical Reflection on Doing Memory Research through the Body.- Chapter 5. The Art of Memory after Genocide: Reimagining the Images of the Places of Pain and (Be)longing.- Chapter 6. Beyond Trauma: Researching Memory on My Doorstep.- Chapter 7. Reading-in-Place and Thick Mapping the Venice Ghetto at 500.- Chapter 8. From Place-Memories to Active Citizenship: The Potential of Geotagged User-Generated Content for Memory Scholarship.- Chapter 9. Participatory Methods and Community-Engaged Practices for Collecting, Presenting and Representing Cultural Memory.- Chapter 10. Community Memory Mapping as a Visual Ethnography of Post-War Northeast England.

‘The chapter “From Place-Memories to Active Citizenship: The Potential of Geotagged User-Generated Content for Memory Scholarship” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

“No topic is more important for a consolidating field like memory studies than methodology. How was the work that established the field done? What approaches will advance us into its next stage of growth? This important volume, and the essays that comprise it, are exceptionally helpful, and will underwrite the next stage of research in this increasingly important field. An essential contribution!” (Jeffrey K. Olick, Professor of Sociology and History, University of Virginia, USA, and co-president of the Memory Studies Association)

Showcases the diverse ways of doing memory work, including via different media, and engagement with memory’s performativity, its affect, its visuality and its sounds Offers a range of interpretative approaches that are attentive to uncovering and explicating the politics of memory and how memory links present day communities and places to the past, as well as proffering answers to why these links may exist Illustrates how the diversity of disciplinary perspectives coalesce around a growing engagement with non-representational, more-than-human and digital approaches in their methodological remit Fills an existing gap by offering a comprehensive and collective approach to memory research with a methodological focus Responds to a growing interest in the nexus between geography and memory

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