Diana Mulinari
Senior professor
Decolonising the Rainbow Flag
Author
Summary, in English
The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic centre. 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.
Department/s
- Department of Gender Studies
Publishing year
2016
Language
English
Pages
192-217
Publication/Series
Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
Volume
8
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Linköping University Electronic Press
Topic
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
- Gender Studies
Keywords
- Communities of belonging
- Decolonial practices
- Homonationalism
- Multi-ethnographic approach
- Rainbow flags
- Resistance
- Global inequalities
- Queer identities
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2000-1525