This editorial introduces the 10 articles collected in this special issue on micro-memories and theorizes their individual and collective contributions to the field of memory studies. In the special issue, 10 memory scholars analyse the same short strip of interaction: a 3-minute fragment of a Belgian woman talking about her deceased father’s past as a collaborator with the Germans during the Second World War. In this empirical exercise, contributors demonstrate how their disciplinary backgrounds as well as their epistemological and methodological frameworks can lead to different (but complimentary) insights in the interpretation of cultural and collective memory.
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