Political Graffiti in Critical Times

Ricardo Campos is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICSNova, Nova FCSH), Portugal. His books include Transglobal Sounds: Music, Identity and Migrant Descendants.

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Introduction: Political Graffiti in Critical Times


Andrea Pavoni, Yannis Zaimakis and Ricardo Campos



PART I: STREET ACTIVISM AND VISUAL PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES



Chapter 1. A Periegesis through the Greek Crisis in Five Graffiti Acts: Cartographic and Photographic Dialogues


Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi



Chapter 2. 'Whatever I Can Do to Put Those People in Jail': Crisis Turns Spanish Artists to Street Activism


Jonna Tolonen



Chapter 3. Walls of Resistance in Critical Times: A Reflection on Political Graffiti and Visual Protest in Southern Europe and Latin America


Yiannis Zaimakis and Leonidas Oikonomakis



Chapter 4. Between the Workshop and the Streets: Graphic Activism and the Student Movement in Chile (2008–2018)


Javiera Manzi, Matías Marambio, Isidro Parraguez, María Yaksic



Chapter 5. Anti-Trump Graffiti and Street Art: A Case Study of Washington, DC


Jeffrey Ian Ross



Chapter 6. Vandalising the Commons


Andrea Pavoni



PART II: SOCIO-CULTURAL DIVISIONS AND ANTI-GENTRIFICATION PROTESTS



Chapter 7. Berlin Political Crises, Street Art and Graffiti from 1945 to 2019


Betty A. Dobratz and Lisa K. Waldner



Chapter 8. Writing in a City in Crisis: Stencil Graffiti in the Old Town of Nicosia


Pafsanias Karathanasis



Chapter 9. Le Charme Discret de L’Anomie: Contested Spaces and Surfaces in Via Zamboni, Bologna

Anna Giulia Della Puppa



PART III: POLITICAL TURMOIL AND REGIME TRANSFORMATION



Chapter 10. ‘25th April Always, Fascism Never Again’: The Post-revolution Murals in Portugal

Cláudia Madeira, Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro and Ricardo Campos



Chapter 11. Street Art in East Timor: Creative (Re)Constructions of Identity in Times of Crisis

Catherine C. Arthur



Chapter 12. Reigniting the Revolution: An Interview with Abu Malek Al-Shami

Hend Alawadhi and Julia Tulke



Afterword: A Public Crisis / A Crisis of Publicness: Political Graffiti in the Post-coronavirus Age

Rafael Schacter



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