States of mourning: A quantitative analysis of national mournings across European countries - PubMed (original) (raw)

States of mourning: A quantitative analysis of national mournings across European countries

Mihai Stelian Rusu. Death Stud. 2020.

Abstract

Despite their growing incidence over the last decades, national days of mourning received curiously sparse attention throughout social sciences and death studies. This study investigates the 327 national mournings observed across European countries between 1989 and 2017 in terms of their national variance, temporal dynamics, typology of events that led to their declaration, and victimology. Drawing on a Durkheimian-inspired conceptualization of national mournings as political rites of solidarity and reconciliation, this article finds empirical support for the thesis that the frequency with which European countries declare national mourning is a negative function of a society's level of social integration.

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