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A national day of mourning is a day, or one of several days, marked by mourning and memorial activities observed among the majority of a country's populace. They are designated by the national government. Such days include those marking the death or funeral of a renowned individual or individuals from that country or elsewhere or the anniversary of such a death or deaths, the anniversaries of a significant natural or man-made disaster occurring either in the country or another country, wartime commemorations or in memory of the victims of a terrorist attack. Flying a national or military flag of that country at half-mast is a common symbol.
Sociologically, period of national mourning are understood "as instituting states of social exception during which state authorities enact ritual actions consisting in a sequence of choreographically staged performative acts meant to create a national community of grief in the face of what is framed as a socially meaningful loss."[1][2][3]
^Rusu, Mihai Stelian (January 1, 2020). "Nations in black: charting the national thanatopolitics of mourning across European countries". European Societies. 22 (1): 122–148. doi:10.1080/14616696.2019.1616795. ISSN 1461-6696.
^Rusu, Mihai Stelian (February 1, 2020). "States of mourning: A quantitative analysis of national mournings across European countries". Death Studies. 44 (2): 117–129. doi:10.1080/07481187.2018.1526830. ISSN 0748-1187. PMID 30526409.
^Rusu, Mihai Stelian (July 2, 2020). "The politics of mourning in post-communist Romania: unravelling the thanatopolitics of grievable deaths". Mortality. 25 (3): 313–331. doi:10.1080/13576275.2019.1682983. ISSN 1357-6275.
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