Decolonising the Rainbow Flag
The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a certain theoretical tension between the rainbow f...
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crlinkopinguep:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1683193 2024-06-23T07:55:25+00:00 Decolonising the Rainbow Flag Laskar, Pia Johansson, Anna Mulinari, Diana 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1683193 https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/download/44/1102 unknown Linkoping University Electronic Press Culture Unbound volume 8, issue 3, page 193-217 ISSN 2000-1525 journal-article 2017 crlinkopinguep https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1683193 2024-06-07T04:01:10Z The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a certain theoretical tension between the rainbow flag as a boundary object and/or a floating signifier, we seek to study where the flag belongs, to whom it belongs, with particular focus on how. The three case studies, which are situated in a city in the Global South (Buenos Aires), in a conflict war zone in the Middle East (the West Bank) and in a racialised neighbourhood in the Global North (Sweden), share despite their diversity a peripheral location to hegemonic forms of knowledge production regimes. Central to our analysis is how the rainbow flag is given a multitude of original and radical different meanings that may challenge the colonial/Eurocentric notions which up to a certain extent are embedded in the rainbow flag. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Sweden LiU Electronic Press (Linköping University) Culture Unbound 8 3 193 217 |
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The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a certain theoretical tension between the rainbow flag as a boundary object and/or a floating signifier, we seek to study where the flag belongs, to whom it belongs, with particular focus on how. The three case studies, which are situated in a city in the Global South (Buenos Aires), in a conflict war zone in the Middle East (the West Bank) and in a racialised neighbourhood in the Global North (Sweden), share despite their diversity a peripheral location to hegemonic forms of knowledge production regimes. Central to our analysis is how the rainbow flag is given a multitude of original and radical different meanings that may challenge the colonial/Eurocentric notions which up to a certain extent are embedded in the rainbow flag. |
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