Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art (Routledge International Handbooks)

"The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections: history, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art; theoretical explanations of graffiti and street art/causes of graffiti and street art; regional/municipal variations/differences of graffiti and street art; and, effects of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication. The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, law enforcement, art history, museum studies, tourism studies, and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The Handbook includes 70 images, a glossary, a chronology, and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked."--Publisher's description Title page 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of figures 14 List of tables 17 List of contributors 18 Editor’s foreword 28 Foreword: Graffiti, street art and the politics of complexity • Jeff Ferrell 31 Acknowledgements 40 Introduction: Sorting it all out • Jeffrey Ian Ross 42 Part I: History, types, and writers/artists of graffiti and street art 52 1 Ancient graffiti • J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor 58 2 Trains, railroad workers and illegal riders: The subcultural world of hobo graffiti • John F. Lennon 68 3 The history of freight train graffiti in North America • Robert Donald Weide 77 4 Deconstructing gang graffiti • Susan A. Phillips 89 5 Prison inmate graffiti • Jacqueline Z. Wilson 102 6 Ways of being seen: Gender and the writing on the wall • Jessica N. Pabón 119 7 Research and theory on latrinalia • Adam Trahan 133 8 Yarn bombing – the softer side of street art • Minna Haveri 144 9 Straight from the underground: New York City’s legal graffiti writing culture • Ronald Kramer 154 10 American Indian graffiti • Favian Martín 165 Part II: Theoretical explanations of graffiti and street art/causes of graffiti and street art 178 11 Graffiti and street art as ornament • Rafael Schacter 182 12 Graffiti, street art and the divergent synthesis of place valorisation in contemporary urbanism • Andrea Mubi Brighenti 199 13 Graffiti art and the city: From piece-making to place-making • Graeme Evans 209 14 Something for the boys?: Exploring the changing gender dynamics of the graffiti subculture • Nancy Macdonald 224 15 The psychology behind graffiti involvement • Myra F. Taylor, Julie Ann Pooley, and Georgia Carragher 235 16 Graffiti and the subculture career • Gregory J. Snyder 245 Part III: Regional/municipal variations/differences of graffiti and street art 256 17 From the city wallsto ‘Clean Trains’: Graffiti in New York City, 1969–1990 • Joe A. Aust 264 18 “Boost or blight?” Graffiti writing and street art in the “new” New Orleans • Doreen Piano 275 19 Pop culture and politics: Graffiti and street art in Montréal • Anna Wacławek 288 20 The battle for public space along the Mapocho River, Santiago de Chile, 1964–2014 • Rodney Palmer 299 21 London calling: Contemporary graffiti and street art in the UK’s capital • Jeffrey Ian Ross 313 22 Graffiti and street art in Paris • David Fieni 329 23 From Marx to Merkel: Political muralism and street art in Lisbon • Ricardo Campos 342 24 The field of graffiti and street artin post-January 2011 Egypt • Mona Abaza 359 25 Wall talk: Palestinian graffiti • Julie Peteet 375 26 Graffiti/street art in Tokyo and surrounding districts • Hidetsugu Yamakoshi and Yasumasa Sekine 386 27 Claiming spaces for urban art images in Beijing and Shanghai • Minna Valjakka 398 28 Contesting transcultural trends: Emerging self-identities and urban art images in Hong Kong • Minna Valjakka 413 Part IV: Effects of graffiti and street art 430 29 How major urban centers in the United States respond to graffiti/street art • Jeffrey Ian Ross 434 30 New York City’s moral panic over graffiti: Normalizing neoliberal penality and paving the way for growth machines • Ronald Kramer 445 31 Stealing from the public: The value of street art taken from the street • Peter Bengtsen 457 32 How American movies depict graffiti and street art • Jeffrey Ian Ross 470 33 Challenging the defense of graffiti, in defense of graffiti • Stefano Bloch 481 34 Does copyright law protect graffiti and street art? • Danwill D. Schwender 493 35 Graffiti, street art, and the evolution of the art market • Maia Morgan Wells 505 Glossary 516 Chronology 521 Index 524