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Urban Artivists and Global Solidarity : For a Sociology of Ukraine’s Cultural H...
Andrade, PedroSocial context. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine since 2022 has led to significant transformations in the country's economic, social, and cultural landscapes. The war has disrupted traditional industries and healthcare systems while causing mass displacement of millions of Ukrainians, leading to new social networks and fragmented communities. Amidst these challenges, street art has emerged as a powerful form of ...
Editorial: Territory in Flux: Mediation, and Hybrid Practices
Neves, Pedro SoaresThe notion of territory has long exceeded its strictly geographic definition. In contemporary urban and cultural research, territory is increasingly understood as a layered construct—simultaneously material and symbolic, regulated and contested, lived and represented. The 2025 edition of Urban Creativity, whose overarching theme was Territory, foregrounded this expanded understanding by bringing together resear...
Editorial: Inscribed Territories: Informal Governance
Neves, Pedro SoaresThis issue of Graffiti and Street Art develops from the 2025 edition of Urban Creativity, whose overarching theme—Territory—foregrounded questions of power, boundary-making, and the social production of space. Within that broader framework, Inscribed Territories: Informal Governance brings together contributions that examine writing, marking, and image-making as practices through which urban territories are reg...
‘Carved in Stone, Captured on Canvas’: On the Medial Transformation of Epigraph...
Krebs, Anna ElisabethThe painting of the 15th-century shows a significant increase in mimetic stone representations, appearing without inscription (Rath, 2019) and with epigraphic elements such as artists’ signatures and dates on stone-imitating frames or architectural elements (Burg, 2007). Prayers or information about saints also appear as stone-carved inscriptions, logically integrated into the pictorial composition. These epigr...
Mount Hymettos, Athens: A Holy Place For Writing
Steele, Philippa M.This paper looks at Mount Hymettos, Athens, as a place of writing. We begin with a description of the mountain, and its prominent place in the lives of Athenians, followed by a survey of the kinds of writing performed there over more than 2,000 years. An important asset to the city and yet set apart from its bustling centre, Hymettos has been home to particular kinds of writing that welcome or necessitate remov...
The Rhythm of the Cursive Line: Reframing graffiti, tagging, writing, cursive, ...
Mazzilli, AliceThis paper reconsiders the terms graffiti, tagging, writing, cursive, and calligraphy as more than neutral descriptors, arguing that their meanings are historically contingent and politically charged. Modern graffiti, frequently labeled with the externally imposed “G-word,” is better understood through the practitioners’ own term, stylewriting, a tradition grounded in the letterform and the embodied act of writ...
Graffiti as an urban territorial and identity tool for branding
Fuertes, Asier MoránAbstract - The urban territory, supported by its elements (architectural and monumental) and the existing delimitations between neighbourhoods (physical and psychosocial), sustains the construction of identity (individual and collective) in urban society. Graffiti is one of the forms used for this, informing outsiders about the boundaries of the neighbourhood or to denounce situations that affect the neighbourh...
Lefebvrean analysis of women lived experiences of the quality of residential sp...
Meshkini, Abolfazl; Hashemi, Leila; Jafarpour, Kamran GhalehteimouriResidential environments, as essential elements of urban settings, offer insights into the anthropological aspects of space through the interaction between objects and individuals. Women, who are constant participants in these environments, are both influenced by their surroundings and actively contribute to shaping them. This study delves into women's firsthand experiences regarding the quality of residential ...
Walls that speak: urban graffiti and alternative narratives in Rome
Haberl, DilettaRome, universally celebrated for its ancient ruins and classical grandeur, is also home to a vibrant and evolving street art scene that redefines the city’s relationship with its past. From Blu’s politically charged murals at Porto Fluviale and Casal de’ Pazzi to Lucamaleonte’s historical tributes in Quadraro and San Lorenzo, street art becomes a means of reclaiming urban space and collective memory. Projects a...
What present-day diglossia in Arabic inscriptions can tell us about the linguis...
Al Jallad, AhmadThis article compares modern and early Islamic Arabic graffiti from the Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah (Black Desert) and the Ḥismà to investigate the relationship between literacy, diglossia, and orthography. Modern inscriptions, written by individuals with rudimentary education in Modern Standard/Classical Arabic, exhibit pervasive grammatical and spelling irregularities, including phonetic spellings and code-switching,...