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Urban Graffiti: Crime, Control, and Resistance

FERRELL, JEFF·1995·Youth & Society
DOI 10.1177/0044118x95027001005
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Recently, a new style of youthful graffiti has emerged in cities throughout the United States and beyond. Based on 4 years of fieldwork inside the Denver, Colorado graffiti underground, and on field and document research in other U.S. and European cities, this article explores the many ways in which those who produce this graffiti resist the increasing segregation and control of urban environments and shows how participants in the graffiti underground undermine the efforts of legal and political authorities to control them. Finally, it documents the ways in which this collective production of graffiti not only confronts and resists existing arrangements but constructs alternative social, cultural, and economic arrangements as well.

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Authors
FERRELL, J.
Affiliations
Northern Arizona University (US)
Corresponding author
FERRELL, JEFF
ORCID
FERRELL, JEFF
Venue
Youth & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1995-09
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
73-92
ISSN
  • 0044-118X (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-8499
DOI
10.1177/0044118x95027001005
OpenAlex
W2111320061
Cited by
152
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FWCI
12.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Youth & Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Public Spaces through Art
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and sociocultural dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Culture and Social Dynamics
Keywords
urban graffiti, youth subcultures, urban segregation, collective production, youth culture, Denver

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