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Whether aesthetically or politically inspired, graffiti is among
the oldest forms of expression in human history, one that becomes
especially significant during periods of social and political
upheaval. With a particular focus on the demographic, ecological,
and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging
exploration of urban space and visual protest. Assembling case
studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus, the
convulsions of post-independence East Timor, and opposition to
Donald Trump in the American capital, it reveals the diverse ways
in which street artists challenge existing social orders and
reimagine urban landscapes.
The authors collected here address youth street cultures in
different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together
contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain,
and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and
American contexts is justified by the range of (complex) social,
cultural and economic relationships that have shaped this
transnational geographical space since the beginning of the
colonial period. The chapters collected here focus on three key
concepts-creativity, resistance and transgression-that form a
threefold dispositive to locally and globally confront, contest and
even fight against the hegemonic, punitive and oppressive powers
(re)produced by (white, male) dominant classes of the city. The
book ensures a high diversity of geographical and social/cultural
research contexts by focusing on one, two or multiple spatial
contexts (the public space, the street, the city) and, at the same
time, by emphasizing the different economic, social, cultural,
symbolic specificities of youth cultures (including gender,
sexuality and race) in their particular urban contexts.
Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as
a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in
terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment
of these countries has induced other massive social and political
changes, a fact which is ignored in the literature. This volume
seeks to fill this gap and break ground by analyzing these trends
in the Portuguese context. Portugal has been portrayed as the
Troika's good pupil by obediently adopting all prescribed austerity
measures. In the process, the nation's fragile social fabric has
been destroyed. Massive emigration, particularly by young people,
massive increases in poverty and a foundering economy have
triggered a collective framing of the crisis and austerity as
unjust and punitive of a collectivity that, at the beginning,
naively believed in the neoliberal narrative of the benign effects
of the cuts. This reframing unleashed an unprecedented wave of
social and political mobilization in an otherwise traditionally
apathetic society. This resistance needs to be addressed as a
direct effect of austerity policies and properly analyzed for what
it really represents: a process of repoliticization and
re-democratization sweeping Europe. These mobilizations include
direct democracy experiments, the growing influence of social
movements (the massive March 2011 demonstrations were a direct
inspiration for the creation of the Indignado movement in Spain,
attesting the contagion effect), solidarity economy and the major
political change in the country's 42 years of democratic rule: an
alliance of the left parties, unthinkable before the crisis, and
which is reframing relations with the European Union. This volume
offers a first approach to the massive political, social and
cultural transformations taking place in the country that make
Portugal, in certain aspects, a lab for innovative practices (e.g.
participatory budgets and the alliance of the left parties) that
may be used elsewhere as alternatives to current understandings of
economic and political orthodoxy
The authors collected here address youth street cultures in
different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together
contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain,
and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and
American contexts is justified by the range of (complex) social,
cultural and economic relationships that have shaped this
transnational geographical space since the beginning of the
colonial period. The chapters collected here focus on three key
concepts-creativity, resistance and transgression-that form a
threefold dispositive to locally and globally confront, contest and
even fight against the hegemonic, punitive and oppressive powers
(re)produced by (white, male) dominant classes of the city. The
book ensures a high diversity of geographical and social/cultural
research contexts by focusing on one, two or multiple spatial
contexts (the public space, the street, the city) and, at the same
time, by emphasizing the different economic, social, cultural,
symbolic specificities of youth cultures (including gender,
sexuality and race) in their particular urban contexts.
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to
the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic
intersections between the local and the global, and between agency
and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.
Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of
music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and
collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of
identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and
political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus,
through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between,
this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism
and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between
music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to
the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic
intersections between the local and the global, and between agency
and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.
Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of
music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and
collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of
identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and
political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus,
through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between,
this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism
and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between
music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.
Esta obra es el resultado del trabajo realizado por un grupo
interinstitucional y multidisciplinar que involucro a profesores y
estudiantes de las Universidades de Cordoba, sede Monteria y el
Centro de Estudios en Ciencias del Mar (CECIMAR) de la Universidad
Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe, con el apoyo administrativo y
financiero de la Oficina de Administracion de Investigacion y
Extension de la Universidad de Cordoba. Trabajo enmarcado en los
proyectos de investigacion: "Composicion y cambios estacionales de
las comunidades de los Crustaceos Decapodos del Departamento de
Cordoba" y "Composicion y estructura de la fauna invertebrada
asociada a los cesped algales en el litoral rocoso del Departamento
de Cordoba.""
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