@article{1436914,
      recid = {1436914},
      author = {Wagner, Anne, and Marusek, Sarah,},
      title = {Flags, color, and the legal narrative : public memory,  identity, and critique /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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 he 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1436914},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32865-8},
}