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Diasporas and transitional justice : transnational activism from local to global levels of engagement
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Koinova, Maria and Karabegovic, Dzeneta (2017) Diasporas and transitional justice : transnational activism from local to global levels of engagement. Global Networks (Oxford): a journal of transnational affairs, 17 (2). pp. 212-233. doi:10.1111/glob.12128 ISSN 1470-2266.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob.12128
Abstract
Scholarship on transitional justice, transnational social movements, and transnational diaspora mobilization has offered little understanding about how memorialization initiatives with substantial diaspora involvement emerge transnationally and are embedded and sustained in different contexts. We argue that diasporas play a galvanizing role in transnational interest-based and symbolic politics, expanding claim-making from the local to national, supranational, and global levels of engagement. Using initiatives to memorialize atrocities committed at the former Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we identify a four-stage mobilization process. First, initiatives emerged and diffused across transnational networks after a local political opportunity opened in the homeland. Second, attempts at coordination of activities took place transnationally through an NGO. Third, initiatives were contextualized on the nation-state level in different host-states, depending on the political opportunities and constraints available there. Fourth, memorialization claims were eventually shifted from the national to the supranational and global levels. The article concludes by demonstrating the potential to apply the analysis to similar global movements in which diasporas are directly involved.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | War memorials -- Yugoslavia, Omarska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Yugoslav War, 1991-1995, Mittal Steel Company | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Global Networks (Oxford): a journal of transnational affairs | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1470-2266 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2017 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 212-233 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/glob.12128 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 October 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 May 2018 | ||||||||||
Funder: | European Research Council (ERC) | ||||||||||
Grant number: | Grant no No. 284198 |
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