Abstract
ABSTRACT In challenging freedoms afforded by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, official campaigns to prohibit flag desecration have continued to surface on America's political landscape. With this in mind, we set out to advance an understanding of the state, its authority, and efforts to protect its symbols by examining seven-teen flag desecration cases in the post-Eichman period (1990-1995). Key dynamics driving the criminalization process are clearly illuminated: namely, moral enterprises, moral panic, authoritarian aesthetics, and escalation. Altogether these concepts shape our critical interpretation of the dialectic between authority and resistance, contributing to a growing intellectual interest in official imagery and social control.
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