Flag burning : moral panic and the criminalization of protest /
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| Author / Creator: | Welch, Michael, 1960- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c2000. |
| Description: | ix, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social problems and social issues |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4462165 |
Table of Contents:
- I. The Emergence of Flag Desecration and Civil Religion
- 1. Protest, Social Control, and the Semiotics of Flag Desecration
- 2. The Roots of Flag Desecration in American History
- 3. Civil Religion and the Flag as a Venerated Object
- II. The Authoritarian Aesthetic and Its Resistance
- 4. Questioning Authority in the Age of Protest
- 5. Flag Burning as Political Iconoclasm in the 1980s
- 6. Patriotism and Dissent in the Post-Eichman Era
- III. Moral Panic Over Flag Desecration
- 7. Moral Panic and the Social Construction of Flag Desecration
- 8. Moral Entrepreneurs and the Criminalization of Protest
- 9. The Media and Its Contradictions in the Flag Panic
- 10. Resisting the Criminalization of Protest.
