People want good graffiti”
Tensions, contradictions, and everyday politics surrounding graffiti in Hanoi, Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8360975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Kee (0000-0001-9538-1691, McGill University), Sarah Turner (0000-0002-6542-8767, McGill University), Danielle Labbé (0000-0001-8182-114X, Université de Montréal) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-104 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Area (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/area.12754 |
| OpenAlex | W3207567944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Graffiti has become an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes, with sprawling words and images on public and private surfaces triggering heated debates on the meaning, implications, and legality of these urban inscriptions. Yet, to date, there has been little academic research conducted on graffiti and street art in the Asian context, and none that we could find on the burgeoning scene in Vietnam. In the context of a socialist state, with little tolerance for public dissent, we investigate how, and by whom, graffiti is created, and to what degree it transgresses public space norms in the country’s capital city, Hanoi. We analyse how young graffiti writers negotiate the social, physical, and cultural boundaries which serve as either deterrents or catalysts for graffiti creation, and consider whether strategies of compliance or everyday resistance are employed in order to create their work. With the effects that globalisation and urbanisation have had on the Asian region, and the tactics citizens employ to negotiate state‐imposed censorship and restraints having been studied closely, we position our work within these broader debates
Aesthetics · Art · Bazaar · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Gentrification · Graffiti · Media studies · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Urban and sociocultural dynamics
The Graffiti Subculture
In Place/Out of Place
Visualizing frictional encounters
Wards of Hanoi
Speaking Out in Vietnam
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
Graffiti in China – Chinese Graffiti
Urban Graffiti as Territorial Markers∗
Street Scenes
The Crucial 'Where' of Graffiti
Writing on the Wall
Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi
Anybody Can Do It
Graffiti as Career and Ideology
Everyday politics in peasant societies (and ours)
Bombing and burning
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |