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The Art of Defiance - Graffiti, Politics and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia (Paperback)
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The Art of Defiance - Graffiti, Politics and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia (Paperback)
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The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti
writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It
explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban
citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build their social
capital and gain a voice within an urban environment that would
prefer they remain quiet, passive and anonymous. In order to both
demystify and complicate our understanding of the practice of
graffiti writing, this book pushes past the narrative that links
the origins of graffiti to criminal gangs and instead offers a
detailed portrait of graffiti as a rich urban culture with its own
rules and practices. To do so, it examines the cultural history of
graffiti in Philadelphia from the early 1970s onward and explores
what it is like to be a graffiti writer in the city today.
Ultimately, Tyson Mitman aims to humanize graffiti writers and to
show that what they do is not merely destructive or puerile, but,
rather, adds something important to the urban experience that is a
conscious and deliberate act on the part of its practitioners.
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