White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day

Paul J (2021)
Memory Studies 16(2): 352–368.

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This article is concerned with White Armband Day (Dan Bijelih Traka), marked on 31 May in memory of the genocidal campaign against Prijedor’s non-Serb population during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–95). What started spontaneously in 2012 as a global social media campaign against genocide denial has become a commemoration day marked in Prijedor, the post-Yugoslav region, across the world and in virtual spaces. Its widespread recognition and impact on alternative memory discourses rendered it one of the most successful civil society initiatives engaging in dealing with the past in the region. Drawing on a transnational mobilisation perspective, the article explores how the initiative emerged and what factors contributed to White Armband Day’s establishment as a transnational commemoration day. Findings from multi-sited research indicate that beyond rapid online mobilisation, two prerequisites have been key to its success: displacement-based (trans)local networks of Prijedorčani and its ability to mobilise young people across ethnic divisions.
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Zeitschriftentitel
Memory Studies
Band
16
Ausgabe
2
Seite(n)
352–368
ISSN
1750-6980
eISSN
1750-6999
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2952051

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Paul J. White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day. Memory Studies. 2021;16(2):352–368.
Paul, J. (2021). White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day. Memory Studies, 16(2), 352–368. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698021995991
Paul, Johanna. 2021. “White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day”. Memory Studies 16 (2): 352–368.
Paul, J. (2021). White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day. Memory Studies 16, 352–368.
Paul, J., 2021. White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day. Memory Studies, 16(2), p 352–368.
J. Paul, “White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day”, Memory Studies, vol. 16, 2021, pp. 352–368.
Paul, J.: White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day. Memory Studies. 16, 352–368 (2021).
Paul, Johanna. “White Armband Day: From global social media campaign to transnational commemoration day”. Memory Studies 16.2 (2021): 352–368.
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