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...
| Publicado en: | Mortality Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 313 - 332 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2020
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