Following the heart ♥
Managing Collective Public Emotions in Museum Collections Documenting the Aftermath of Terror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Hrechaniuk (0000-0003-4755-5946, Linköping University, corresponding author), Johanna Sjöberg (0000-0001-6901-4417, Linköping University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 935-955 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2025.2520759 |
| OpenAlex | W4411608609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
Red, pink and in national colours, whole and shattered, drawn by hand and digital, hearts are everywhere in spontaneous public commemoration. Despite this omnipresence, heart imagery has largely been taken for granted. This article follows hearts across two collections in three Stockholm-based museums documenting the 2017 terrorist attack in the Swedish capital. We explore how hearts circulate and evolve, visually and together with accompanying texts, connecting the visual and material culture of commemoration with broader popular visual culture. We also explore the politics of emotions and the emotional work that hearts perform. We suggest that, alongside commemorating victims of the attack, public commemoration is also a site of social and political engagement and calls for social justice. This has implications for heritagising and memorialising terrorist attacks, in particular, the archival and museum collections used here, which document acts of terror and public reactions to them
Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage
Doing Emotions History
The Managed Heart
Emotional Heritage
‘These are not just pieces of paper’
First Wave Collecting – Christchurch Terror Attacks, 15 March 2019
Grassroots Memorials
Historians, Emotions, and Children’s Trauma in the Archives
Homeland ritualised
Photography reframed
Pizza, beer and kittens
A social semiotic perspective on emoji
Affecting relations
Work in a Modern Society
Revisiting the History of Emotions. An Introduction
Affect and the Response to Terror
The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials
Historicizing the present
The 'Manchester Together Archive
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children's culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism
Collective Feelings
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |