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

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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
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
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
Dates:	Date Event April 2017 Published 2 May 2016 Updated April 2016 Available 21 December 2015 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	25 October 2016
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
Funder:	European Research Council (ERC)
Grant number:	Grant no No. 284198

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