Risky Pleasures

Using the Work of Graffiti Writers to Theorize the Act of Ethnography

Bibliographic Data

ID2385485
AuthorsRachel Holmes (0009-0000-0472-0847, Manchester Metropolitan University, Didsbury, UK,)
Year2010
Volume16
Issue10
Pages871-882
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800410383118
OpenAlexW2019575786
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

Graffiti artists who deface and vandalize also highly aestheticise and politicize landscapes marking boundaries that are both territorial and ideological. Similarly, the privileged "I" within reflexive research seems to subvert a process of territorialisation of the (un)authored research text with a kind of repetitious "tagging." This article will consider how the idea of graffiti tagging might be used to theorize acts of ethnography (and ethnographer) in an early years classroom to destabilize what might otherwise remain an unproblematic inscription or stain in data. I will draw from excerpts of classroom data to open up ways to think about particular understandings of the researcher as "I," casting shadows over the "I" that is written into versions of the child and the classroom

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Fieldnotes · Graffiti · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

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