Colour in Culture and Society
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The Colour in Culture and Society arena encompasses a broad spectrum of topics addressing colours and normativity, colours and counter-cultures, colouring Inter-cultur(es), and the functions and values of colours. A tentative outline of topics is suggested in the following.
Part 1: Colour and Normativity- Written and unwritten colour codes
- Colour and political power
- Mainstream: Colour and fashion
- Clergy colours and the hierarchy in religious institutions
- Colour and racism—The construction of whiteness
- Colour tools of gender-constructions
- Colour and social distinction
- Colour production and the development of the international market
- Avant-garde: Colour and fashion
- Female revolts: Pink panties and red lips as symbols of protest cultures
- Colour and colourlessness in youth movements
- Rainbow-communities: Empowering marginalized people through colours
- Black is more than beautiful: Re-creating the symbolism of darkness
- Neither black nor white: Grey signifies difference
- Queering colours and the visual de-construction of gender roles
- Colour events and happenings—Visual overload as experience
- Colour preferences and cultural identities
- Colour phobia in western societies
- Colour perception and discourses in Asian cultures
- Colour landscapes: Scripted spaces in multi-cultural urbanity
- Fusion of colours—The migration of visual cultures
- Colours pushing business—Signature for global brands and commercials
- Tourism and fashion trends: Import of new colours
- Colouring the future—The design of life and work spaces in trans-cultural societies
- Colour aesthetics and globalization
- Human colours in the pre-history—e.g. health practices, funerals
- Holy colours: Rituals and religions
- The colours of mourning and the colours of joy
- Colour and colonisation
