TY - CHAP

T1 - The Imagery of Power Facing the Power of Imagery

T2 - Toward a Visual Analysis of Social Movements

AU - Doerr, Nicole

AU - Teune, Simon

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2012, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth, and Laura Wong.

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - An athletic body holds aloft a hammer in one hand, ready to strike the sword held in the other. A red circle frames this blue icon, surrounded by a biblical quotation in black lettering that reads “Swords into Ploughshares” (see figure 3.1). East Germans wore cloth patches bearing this symbol in the early 1980s as a call for peace between the Eastern and Western blocs.1 The patch was modeled on a statue by the decorated representative of Soviet Realism Yevgeny Vuchetich. The Soviet Union donated the statue to the United Nations in 1959. Warsaw Pact countries used the icon as a positive reference point in their apology for the Soviet world as a stronghold of world peace. However, when the patch was distributed throughout the Protestant Church during protests against the military training of East German students in the early 1980s, the government forbade wearing the symbol in order to prevent its “misuse.” In reaction, peace activists cut out the print and continued to wear the patch with a hole in the center, thereby highlighting the absence of the image.

AB - An athletic body holds aloft a hammer in one hand, ready to strike the sword held in the other. A red circle frames this blue icon, surrounded by a biblical quotation in black lettering that reads “Swords into Ploughshares” (see figure 3.1). East Germans wore cloth patches bearing this symbol in the early 1980s as a call for peace between the Eastern and Western blocs.1 The patch was modeled on a statue by the decorated representative of Soviet Realism Yevgeny Vuchetich. The Soviet Union donated the statue to the United Nations in 1959. Warsaw Pact countries used the icon as a positive reference point in their apology for the Soviet world as a stronghold of world peace. However, when the patch was distributed throughout the Protestant Church during protests against the military training of East German students in the early 1980s, the government forbade wearing the symbol in order to prevent its “misuse.” In reaction, peace activists cut out the print and continued to wear the patch with a hole in the center, thereby highlighting the absence of the image.

KW - Collective Identity

KW - Social Movement

KW - Social Movement Research

KW - Visual Analysis

KW - Visual Aspect

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133278749&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1057/9780230119833_4

DO - 10.1057/9780230119833_4

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85133278749

T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series

SP - 43

EP - 55

BT - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

ER -