The Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond

Ronald Kramer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-9708-9 (ISBN)

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This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers. Examining how contemporary graffiti writing has been brought into new relationships with major social institutions, it explores the contemporary dynamics between graffiti, society, the art world and social media, paying particular attention to how New York City’s political elite has reacted to graffiti. Despite its major structural transformation, officials in New York continue to construe graffiti writing culture as a monolithic, criminal enterprise, a harbinger of economic and civic collapse. This basic paradox – persistent state opposition to legal forms of graffiti that continue to gain social acceptance – is found in many other major cities throughout the globe, especially those that have embraced neoliberal forms of governance. The author accounts for the cultural conflicts that graffiti consistently engenders by theorizing the political and economic advantages that elites secure by endorsing strong 'anti-graffiti' positions.

Dr Ronald Kramer is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Introduction.- The extraction of subway graffiti: The late 1960s to 1989.- The “clean train” era: Creating a space for the legal production of graffiti.- Responding to the new graffiti writing culture: Broader publics, art worlds, and the sphere of commodity exchange.- The moral panic over graffiti in New York City: Political elites and the mass print media.- Engendering desire for neoliberal penality and the logic of growth machines.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations, color; XIII, 160 p. 11 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	criminology and urban graffiti • elites and urban graffiti • graffiti and social conflict • graffiti, politics, art and social media • legal griffiti and social acceptance • urban subcultures
ISBN-10	981-10-9708-9 / 9811097089
ISBN-13	978-981-10-9708-9 / 9789811097089
Zustand	Neuware