"This book explores how states in political transition use stamps to promote a new visual nationalism.
Stamps as products of the state and provide small pieces of information about a state’s heritage, culture, economies and place in the world. These depictions change over time, reflecting political and cultural changes and developments. The volume explores the transition times in more than a dozen countries from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. Specifically addressed are the stamp topics, issues and themes in the years before and after such major changes occurred, for example, from a European colony to political independence or from a dictatorship to democracy. The authors compare the personalities, histories, and cultural representations ""before"" the transition period and how the state used the ""after"" event to define or redefine its place on the world political map. The final three chapters consider international themes on many stamp issues, one being stamps with Disney cartoon characters, another on ""themeless"" Forever stamps, and the third on states celebrating women and their accomplishments.
This volume has wide interdisciplinary relevance and should prove of particular interest to those studying geopolitics, political transition, visual nationalism, soft power and visual representations of decolonializing."
Edited by:
Stanley D Brunn
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9780367501204
ISBN 10: 0367501201
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 08 August 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction: Stamps as symbols of a visual nationalism Chapter 1—Images, semiotics and political transitions: Case studies of first issues from eight nations Chapter 2—Using China’s stamp issues to document economic and political changes Chapter 3—Post-liberation Korea – The first postage stamps: A comparative semiotic study of nation building in North and South Korea Chapter 4—From the Netherlands East Indies to Indonesia: A philatelic iconography of political upheaval Chapter 5—Kazakhstan’s first twenty-five years of postage stamps: Highlighting nature, nationalism, and selective Soviet memory Chapter 6—Imaging political turmoil through postage stamps in the heart of Africa: Congo/Zaire 1950-1971 from colonialism to national identity Chapter 7—Couriers of change: The semiotics of Senegalese postage stamps Chapter 8—""Non!"" visible: How Guinée stamped its political leadership on Africa's decolonization, 1958-1962 Chapter 9—Three marked transitions in Ethiopia’s stamp issues: 1960s to present Chapter 10—Transitions in postage stamp iconography: From apartheid to democracy in South Africa Chapter 11—From UN-mandated territory to independent Namibia Chapter 12—Mauritius and its politics on stamps, 1958-1977 Chapter 13—History as stamped by postage stamps: Poland’s transitions in the 20th century Chapter 14—Estonia on stamps: Abrupt and smooth periods of political transition Chapter 15—The breakup of Yugoslavia: Territorial disintegration and political transition documented through images on stamps, 1986-2010 Chapter 16—Postage stamps as political transition and integration: The case of North Cyprus Europa stamps 1975 and 1998 Chapter 17—Stamps of the Palestinian Authority: Asserting national identity while under occupation, 1994-2019 Chapter 18—Cuba: The evolution of revolutionary stamps Chapter 19—Local political upheaval and global cultural appropriation: The postage stamps of Grenada, 1974-1988 Chapter 20—Cartooning islands for fun and profit: The proliferation of Disney stamps Chapter 21—Reading contemporary America through Forever stamp themes: A visual analysis and interpretation Chapter 22—Feminine philately: Global unevenness in celebrating women on stamps"
Stanley D. Brunn is Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
