Walls of Freedom”
Street Art and Structural Violence in the Global City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14956002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominic Davies (0000-0002-3584-5789, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0975-2935 • E-ISSN: 0975-2935 |
| Publisher | Aesthetics Media Services (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.02 |
| OpenAlex | W2745658469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article argues that contemporary street art (or graffiti) uses a unique set of resistant techniques to foreground the contours and shapes of different kinds of structural violence inscribed into, and perpetuated by, the infrastructural layouts of the twenty-first century's increasingly global cities. Graffiti can resist structural violence as it is shaped and exacerbated by-even embedded within-the physical walls of city spaces, ricocheting off into alternative and on occasion more democratic modes of urban habitation. Through a discussion of examples from urban spaces as diverse as revolutionary Cairo, divided East Jerusalem and the West Bank in Palestine, and South African townships and gentrifying East London, the article shows that street art can transform the violent infrastructural strategies of oppressive state governance into a canvas that articulates calls for democratic and political freedom
Ancient history · Art · Democracy · Global city · Graffiti · Inscribed figure · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Public Spaces through Art · Urban and sociocultural dynamics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |