Memoryscape is a concept that refers to the landscape of constructed symbols of collective memory in any society, city, or place, such as monuments, memorials, historical markers, street names, and the commemorative naming of landmarks, such as stadiums, municipal buildings, cultural centers, and airports. The concept gained currency as a way to understand a kind of human rights activism that sought to "remember" the victims of mass atrocity by focuing on the construction of memorials and sites of conscience, espcially in the wake of conflict or authoritarian rule [1] and is connected to the field of transitional justice.

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1. Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, and Leigh A. Payne (eds), "The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule", 2005 (University of Wisconsin Press), pp 97-102

Katharine G. Trostel, "Memoryscapes: Urban Palimpsests and Networked Jewish Memory in the Works of Tununa Mercado and Karina Pacheco Medrano", Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, Volume 14, Number 2, June 2016, pp. 377-391