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Social Memory is a category focused on how groups, communities, and nations remember and forget their pasts, and how those shared memories shape identity, politics, and culture. Drawing on sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, and cultural studies, these books examine the making and contesting of collective and public memory through rituals, monuments, museums, archives, oral histories, school curricula, literature, film, and digital media. Topics include national myths, trauma and reconciliation, diaspora and migration, heritage and nostalgia, memory politics, and the silences and erasures that accompany official narratives. Featuring theory, case studies, and accessible narratives, this category illuminates the institutions, practices, and power dynamics that determine what is remembered, how it is transmitted across generations, and why it matters in the present.

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