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Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique

Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique

Wagner, Anne
Marusek, Sarah

Paperback

Series: Law and Visual Jurisprudence, Book 1

Literary CriticismGeneral Law

ISBN10: 3030328678
ISBN13: 9783030328672
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 26 2022
Pages: 697
Weight: 2.27
Height: 1.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
On behalf of Professor Hugh Brady, Director and Senior Fellow, The Flag Research Center at the University of Texas School of Law, Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique (Springer 2021) has been selected as the recipient of our Gherardi Davis Prize is presented for a significant contribution to vexillological research for the year 2021. This work was selected because of its breadth and depth in examining flags as meaningful transmitters of significant symbolic information concerning the origins, culture, self-image, and values of a society. We believe it represents a signal achievement in the study of flags that sets a new standard for research in the field. The Flag Research Center, founded in 1962, is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the human need to create and use symbols to express political, cultural, and social ideals through flags and flag-related material culture.

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.

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