Publication
Springer (2021), Edition: 1st ed. 2021, 745 pages
ISBN
978-3-030-32865-8 / 9783030328658
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CONTENTS
PART I - Building Narratives of Color-Coded Values
- Colors Like Words / Jan M. Broekman
- Dislocations. Light and Colour, Flags and Identifications / Claudius Messner
- The Semiotics of Flags
- Semiotics, Symbols and Politics: Between Flags, Crises and Disputes in National States
- Fluttering the Past in the Present. The Role of Flags in the Contemporary Society: Law, Politics, Identity and Memory
- Fraternity Red and Revolution Red
- Divided Yet Shared Emotions on Semiotic Colours and Shapes Between the Flags of South Korea, North Korea, and Korea Unification
- Flagging Exclusionary Nationalism
PART II - Telling the History of a Nation Through the Color Coding of Flags
- Flags, Identity, Memory: From Nationalisms to the Post-truth Uses of Collective Symbols
- Flags and Nation in Hungary
- Historically Conditioned Identity Protection in Poland: A Case Study of Colours as Well as Legal Language Protection and Restitution
- Flag Regimes, Nationality Types and Law’s ‘Place’
- Le drapeau dans les Constitutions de la France
- Scotland and the Saltire: Symbol of a Nation Carved in the Clouds
- The European Flag in Non-EU Countries: “United in Diversity”?
- The Antisocial Fabric: German and American Approaches to Flags As Hate Speech in Public Demonstration
- Semiotic and Legal Analysis of Flags in Russia: Belonging to a Multi-National Federal State Through Color, Form, Space and Time
- The Sun Also Rises: Flying the Japanese Flag Amid Contested National Narratives
- India’s Tiraṅgā at the Confluence of Postcolonial Nationalism, Cosmopolitan Aspirations, and Chromatic Social Cognition: “Saffronising” Democracy?
- Indian National Flag: Carving the National Identity
- The Regional Flag of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China: A Synaesthetic Exploration
- Unity, Harmony and Stability: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of the Five-Star Red Flag in the People’s Republic of China
PART III - Recreating Flags Under Other Scenarios
- Flag As Fetish: Urbanizing the Color of a Nation
- The Multi-Sited/Synesthetic Taste of the Italian ‘Tricolore’: Time-Space Transmutations of the Italian Flag’s Colors Through the Ingredients of Pizza Margherita
- The Rainbow Flag as Signal, Icon, Index and Symbol of Collective and Individual Gay Identity
- Flag of Compassion: Public Declaration, Manifesto and Afterword by the Artist
- Harms of the Stolen Generations Claimed Under the Flag: Contesting National World-Making Through Literature
- Art, Ritual, and Law in the Life of Heraldic Flags in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- The Politics of Jasper Johns’s Gray American Flags
- Marcel Duchamp, the Bride and the French Flag on the Great War Battlefield
- National Identity and the Politics of Belonging in Greek Cypriot Visual Culture
- Afterword: From the Battlefield to the Computer Screen, Deciphering the Language of Flags
PART I - Building Narratives of Color-Coded Values
- Colors Like Words / Jan M. Broekman
- Dislocations. Light and Colour, Flags and Identifications / Claudius Messner
- The Semiotics of Flags
- Semiotics, Symbols and Politics: Between Flags, Crises and Disputes in National States
- Fluttering the Past in the Present. The Role of Flags in the Contemporary Society: Law, Politics, Identity and Memory
- Fraternity Red and Revolution Red
- Divided Yet Shared Emotions on Semiotic Colours and Shapes Between the Flags of South Korea, North Korea, and Korea Unification
- Flagging Exclusionary Nationalism
PART II - Telling the History of a Nation Through the Color Coding of Flags
- Flags, Identity, Memory: From Nationalisms to the Post-truth Uses of Collective Symbols
- Flags and Nation in Hungary
- Historically Conditioned Identity Protection in Poland: A Case Study of Colours as Well as Legal Language Protection and Restitution
- Flag Regimes, Nationality Types and Law’s ‘Place’
- Le drapeau dans les Constitutions de la France
- Scotland and the Saltire: Symbol of a Nation Carved in the Clouds
- The European Flag in Non-EU Countries: “United in Diversity”?
- The Antisocial Fabric: German and American Approaches to Flags As Hate Speech in Public Demonstration
- Semiotic and Legal Analysis of Flags in Russia: Belonging to a Multi-National Federal State Through Color, Form, Space and Time
- The Sun Also Rises: Flying the Japanese Flag Amid Contested National Narratives
- India’s Tiraṅgā at the Confluence of Postcolonial Nationalism, Cosmopolitan Aspirations, and Chromatic Social Cognition: “Saffronising” Democracy?
- Indian National Flag: Carving the National Identity
- The Regional Flag of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China: A Synaesthetic Exploration
- Unity, Harmony and Stability: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of the Five-Star Red Flag in the People’s Republic of China
PART III - Recreating Flags Under Other Scenarios
- Flag As Fetish: Urbanizing the Color of a Nation
- The Multi-Sited/Synesthetic Taste of the Italian ‘Tricolore’: Time-Space Transmutations of the Italian Flag’s Colors Through the Ingredients of Pizza Margherita
- The Rainbow Flag as Signal, Icon, Index and Symbol of Collective and Individual Gay Identity
- Flag of Compassion: Public Declaration, Manifesto and Afterword by the Artist
- Harms of the Stolen Generations Claimed Under the Flag: Contesting National World-Making Through Literature
- Art, Ritual, and Law in the Life of Heraldic Flags in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- The Politics of Jasper Johns’s Gray American Flags
- Marcel Duchamp, the Bride and the French Flag on the Great War Battlefield
- National Identity and the Politics of Belonging in Greek Cypriot Visual Culture
- Afterword: From the Battlefield to the Computer Screen, Deciphering the Language of Flags