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1st Edition

Methodologies for Graffiti and Street Art Research

Edited By Jonna Tolonen, Mari Myllylä Copyright 2027

236 Pages 20 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book explores theoretical approaches, methods, and practices for executing graffiti and street art research. The book provides insight into the methods around an exponentially growing area within visual studies. Graffiti and street art research has been criticised for utilising methods developed in other scientific fields, without discussing or justifying if the selected methods are... Read more

Table of Contents

PART I Walking and Documenting Cities

1. Art History at the Margins: A Journey into Research Methods for Graffiti and Street Art

Ilaria Hoppe

2. Explorations on the Plasticity of 'Street Art' as a Term and as a Framework: The Case of Lorenzo Pezzatini's Projects for Public Space

Isabel Carrasco Castro

3. Walking-as-Methodology in Graffiti and Street Art Research

Francisca Fernández Merino and Holly Eva Ryan

4. Learn in the Street: Lessons from a Decade of Urban Attunement through Political Graffiti and Street Art

Julia Tulke

5. Wall Watching: Observing Urban Walls as Democratic Public Spaces

Sofia Pinto

6. Reimagining Graffiti Methodology: Rancière's Theory Gets a Fresh Coat

Judit R. Palencia Gutiérrez

PART II Analysing Walls and Oneself

7. Using Content Analysis to Appraise Graffiti and Street Art

Mari Myllylä

8. Photographing the Street from the Windows: Recollecting Graffiti though Online Visual (Auto)Ethnography
Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, Wendy Chan Wing Lam and Chi Hung Wong

9. 'My bad?': Ethical Issues Related to Methodologies in GSAR – An Arts-Based Autoethnographical Approach to Field Work Abroad

Jonna Tolonen

10. Learning by Becoming: Embodied Mimicry in Ethnographic Research

Lisa Garcia

11. Lurking in the Ethnographic Peripheries? Feminist Knowledge-making and Rewriting Graffiti History in Helsinki

Malin Fransberg and Mari Myllylä

12. Knowing Graffiti and Street Art without Methods – Improvisational Everyday Practice
Laima Nomeikaite

Conclusion

Mari Myllylä and Jonna Tolonen

Editor(s)

Biography

Jonna Tolonen is a Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, Finland

Mari Myllylä is a Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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