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The politics of mourning in post-communist Romania: unravelling the thanatopolitics of grievable deaths.

National days of mourning are state-sponsored rituals of collective grief enacted in the public sphere by political authorities to symbolically mark and emotionally cope with a socially significant loss. These officially declared and ceremonially performed state rituals of communion in grief provide...

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Published in:Mortality Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 313 - 332
Main Author: Rusu, Mihai Stelian
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2020
Subjects:
Romania
Death
Emotions
Epidemics
Grief
Practical politics
Traffic accidents
Victims
Violence
Influenza epidemiology
Fires
Wounds & injuries
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