The cover image therefore also speaks to our interest in politics, and specifically in how
protesters harness the rhetorical power of the visual to fight the powerful. To simply bemoan …

Much has changed since the 1960s when the first scholarship on contemporary graffiti
appeared. The current paper is an attempt to outline and contextualize a number of recurrent …

Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape
is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an …

This is a volume dedicated to graffiti and street art. More precisely, this book is a testament to
the multiple modes by which graffiti and street art have changed our ways of seeing …

Arts-led revitalization projects are increasingly being undertaken in South Korean cities to
improve residential areas in decline. One of the more common initiatives involves the …

In gentrifying communities, youth of color are often the subject of citizen-based policing by
white residents, who use nonemergency 311 calls to police unwanted behaviors, eliminate …

“We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social
order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and …

Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-
19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite …

This paper aims to extend dark tourism scholarship concerned with existential aspects of the
human nature and the power of 'dark places' to provoke our thinking about the meaning and …

The fields of criminology/criminal justice have periodically used the term and concept of
urban street culture to explain selected types of street crime and gang behavior. This article …