# Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative - Portail Universitaire du droit > Source : [Portail Universitaire du Droit](https://univ-droit.fr) > URL : https://univ-droit.fr/recherche/actualites-de-la-recherche/parutions/44083-flags-color-and-the-legal-narrative > Description : flags, color, and the legal narrative, public memory, identity, and critique, présentation de l'éditeur the book deals with the identification of “identity” ... ## Parution *Public Memory, Identity, and Critique* - **ISBN** : 978-3-030-32864-1 - **Éditeur** : Springer - **Auteurs universitaires** : Anne Wagner ## Résumé Présentation de l'éditeur The book deals with the identification of “identity” based on culturally specific color codes and images that conceal assumptions about members of a people comprising a nation, or a people within a nation. Flags narrate constructions of belonging that become tethered to negotiations for power and resistance over time and throughout a people’s history. Bennet (2005) defines identity as “the imagined sameness of a person or social group at all times and in all circumstances”. While such likeness may be imagined or even perpetuated, the idea of sameness may be socially, politically, culturally, and historically contested to reveal competing pasts and presents. Visually evocative and ideologically representative, flags are recognized symbols fusing color with meaning that prescribe a story of unity. Yet, through semiotic confrontation, there may be different paths leading to different truths and applications of significance. Knowing this and their function, the book investigates these transmitted values over time and space. Indeed, flags may have evolved in key historical periods, but contemporaneously transpire in a variety of ways.  The book investigates these transmitted values: Which values are being transmitted? Have their colors evolved through space and time? Is there a shift in cultural and/or collective meaning from one space to another? What are their sources? What is the relationship between law and flags in their visual representations? What is the shared collective and/or cultural memory beyond this visual representation? Considering the complexity and diversity in the building of a common memory with flags, the book interrogates the complex color-coded sign system of particular flags and their meanings attentive to a complex configuration of historical, social and cultural conditions that shift over time. Winner of the 2021 Gherardi Davis Prize of the Flag Research Center   Sommaire Front Matter Building Narratives of Color-Coded Values Colors Like WordsJan M. Broekman   Dislocations. Light and Colour, Flags and IdentificationsClaudius Messner   The Semiotics of FlagsMassimo Leone   Semiotics, Symbols and Politics: Between Flags, Crises and Disputes in National StatesEduardo C. B. Bittar   Fluttering the Past in the Present. The Role of Flags in the Contemporary Society: Law, Politics, Identity and MemoryMirosław M. Sadowski   Fraternity Red and Revolution RedLung-Lung Hu   Divided Yet Shared Emotions on Semiotic Colours and Shapes Between the Flags of South Korea, North Korea, and Korea UnificationHee Sook Lee-Niinioja   Flagging Exclusionary NationalismFarida Fozdar   Telling the History of a Nation Through the Color Coding of Flags Flags, Identity, Memory: From Nationalisms to the Post-truth Uses of Collective SymbolsKristian Bankov   Flags and Nation in HungaryMiklós Könczöl, Gábor Schweitzer   Historically Conditioned Identity Protection in Poland: A Case Study of Colours as Well as Legal Language Protection and RestitutionAleksandra Matulewska, Marek Mikołajczyk   Flag Regimes, Nationality Types and Law’s ‘Place’José Manuel Aroso Linhares   Le drapeau dans les Constitutions de la FrancePierre-André Lecocq   Scotland and the Saltire: Symbol of a Nation Carved in the CloudsJames MacLean   The European Flag in Non-EU Countries: “United in Diversity”?Alexandr Svetlicinii   The Antisocial Fabric: German and American Approaches to Flags As Hate Speech in Public DemonstrationChristopher Wood Eckels   Semiotic and Legal Analysis of Flags in Russia: Belonging to a Multi-National Federal State Through Color, Form, Space and TimeYulia Erokhina, Anita Soboleva   Telling the History of a Nation Through the Color Coding of Flags The Sun Also Rises: Flying the Japanese Flag Amid Contested National Narratives    Richard Powell   India’s Tiraṅgā at the Confluence of Postcolonial Nationalism, Cosmopolitan Aspirations, and Chromatic Social Cognition: “Saffronising” Democracy?    Riccardo Vecellio Segate   Indian National Flag: Carving the National Identity    Parineet Kaur   The Regional Flag of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China: A Synaesthetic Exploration    Rostam J. Neuwirth   Unity, Harmony and Stability: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of the Five-Star Red Flag in the People’s Republic of China    Youping Xu   Recreating Flags Under Other Scenarios Flag As Fetish: Urbanizing the Color of a NationAnne Wagner, Sarah Marusek, Wei Yu The Multi-Sited/Synesthetic Taste of the Italian ‘Tricolore’: Time-Space Transmutations of the Italian Flag’s Colors Through the Ingredients of Pizza MargheritaMario Ricca The Rainbow Flag as Signal, Icon, Index and Symbol of Collective and Individual Gay IdentityNathalie Hauksson-Tresch Flag of Compassion: Public Declaration, Manifesto and Afterword by the ArtistRini Hurkmans Harms of the Stolen Generations Claimed Under the Flag: Contesting National World-Making Through LiteratureHonni van Rijswijk Art, Ritual, and Law in the Life of Heraldic Flags in Late Medieval and Renaissance ItalyPascale Rihouet The Politics of Jasper Johns’s Gray American FlagsFrances Guerin Marcel Duchamp, the Bride and the French Flag on the Great War BattlefieldChristine Vial Kayser National Identity and the Politics of Belonging in Greek Cypriot Visual CultureMaria Photiou Afterword: From the Battlefield to the Computer Screen, Deciphering the Language of FlagsOlivier Moréteau Back matter ## Métadonnées - **Catégorie** : Parutions - **Publié** : 2022-05-16 ## Tags Droit et culture, Droit privé, Droit public, Histoire du droit, Identités, Mémoire, Représentation, Sociologie politique --- *Portail Universitaire du Droit — [univ-droit.fr](https://univ-droit.fr)*