Graffiti: a creative means of youth coping with collective trauma

Klingman, Avigdor; Shalev, Ronit; Pearlman, Abigail

doi:10.1016/s0197-4556(00)00072-1

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“…Graffiti has been widely studied within anthropology, linguistics, arts, history, archaeology, criminology, psychology, gender studies, sociology and urban geography, among other disciplines (Bloch 2012;Burnham 2010;Dax 2015;Frederick 2009;Giles & Giles 2010;Klingman, Shalev, & Pearlman 2000;Lachmann 1988;Leong 2016;Otta et al 1996;Philipps 2015). Within the field of border and migration studies graffiti has been approached from perspectives that emphasize its significance as an aesthetic and artistic expression around/about borders (Al-Mousawi 2015; Alvarez 2008).…”

Section: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writings on the Wall: Textual Traces of Transit in the Aegean Borderscape

Tsoni¹,

Franck²

2019

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The Greek island of Lesvos has a centuries-old history as a site of departure, arrival, coexistence and resistance for the forcibly displaced. This migratory chronology, however, was overwritten by the unprecedented attention that Lesvos attracted during the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’. This paper examines vernacular aspects of bordering, specifically the practice of border crossers and other groups standing in solidarity with—or against—them, to inscribe messages on walls in and around carceral and public spaces, viewed as a process of constructing and contesting borders from below. Closely reading numerous inscriptions collected around Lesvos reveals how borders are constructed, enacted and contested from below through borderlanders’ discursive practices on some of the very walls that constitute the EU frontier’s material infrastructure. This study aims to advance understandings of the historical continuity of the Aegean borderscape as a complex landscape of border effects and affects that exceed borders’ legal, infrastructural and political dimensions, while also highlighting the persistence and importance of personal agency, self-authorship and identity reclamation by border populations even in the direst of circumstances.

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Section: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Writings on the Wall: Textual Traces of Transit in the Aegean Borderscape

Tsoni¹,

Franck²

2019

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“…Moreover, the current study also found many teenagers to be intimidating when they ‘hung around’. As youth are often considered responsible for most graffiti (Klingman and others, ; Ten Eyck, ), there could be a case for allowing teenagers to artistically express themselves through legal wall graffiti that was socially acceptable in designated areas. This could effectively ‘kill two birds with one stone’; potentially lessening the number of teenagers ‘hanging around’, and create a colourful environment for the children.…”

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Exploring Children's Perceptions of their Local Environment in Relation to Time Spent Outside

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This study aims to understand how children perceive their environment, exploring the affordances children perceive to influence their physical activity (PA) behaviour when outside. Participants included boys and girls aged 10-12 years (n = 15) living in Scotland. Children's visual and verbal representations of their perceived environment were analysed to assess environmental determinants of PA. The findings suggested that physical affordances that offer a sense of risk were important to children's play spaces. Social affordances influenced where the children went in their environment and the features they utilised as part of play behaviour; strangers were considered threatening depending on whether the activity was recognised.

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“…Klingman et al (2000) regarded graffiti as ''a mode of communication with others that allows personal expression while behaving in an unconventional way and changing the environment while conducting a negotiation with it; thus, exercising some mastery/control'' (p. 300). Of course these-mostly politically motivated-writings differ greatly from the hip-hop graffiti that mostly features the name of the writer or of his or her crew.…”

Section: Graffiti and Break-dancing: Control Of Space And Bodymentioning

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Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes

Röttger‐Rössler

Markowitsch²

2009

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Graffiti: a creative means of youth coping with collective trauma

Cited by 19 publications

References 12 publications

Writings on the Wall: Textual Traces of Transit in the Aegean Borderscape

Writings on the Wall: Textual Traces of Transit in the Aegean Borderscape

Exploring Children's Perceptions of their Local Environment in Relation to Time Spent Outside

Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes

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