RT Article
T1 Bomb alert: graffiti writing and urban space in London
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 3
SP 511
OP 528
A1 Kindynis, Theo
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/157218325X
AB Based on three years of ethnographic research undertaken in London amongst a loose network of what British Transport Police term ‘serious graffiti vandals’, this article considers how we might conceive theoretically of the interrelationships between graffiti writing, urban space and social control. The article proceeds in two parts. By way of introduction, the first half of the article delineates some of the major subcultural elements that comprise the day-to-day practice of graffiti writing as it exists in present-day London. The second half of the article engages the theoretical work of Henri Lefebvre. It is suggested that graffiti can be understood as simultaneously disrupting authoritative spatial orderings, whilst superimposing its own alternative social geography onto the city.
K1 Graffiti
K1 Ethnography
K1 Cultural criminology
K1 Lefebvre, Henri
K1 Urban space
K1 Tagging
K1 Kulturkriminologie
K1 Sozialgeografie
K1 Städtischer Raum
K1 Taggen
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx040