Graffiti Como Resistencia

But we suggest that inscriptions are also more tan this. In that they are an assertion of a rigth to be in place, inscriptions represent a resistance to sociogeographical exclusion.

The first part of this chapter considers modern day graffiti as the product of an inherently territorialan resistive act. An example of rock-art is then discussed in view of graffiti-associated behavior.

This example is presented in an attempt to theorize various bodies of rock-art in a new way as a mobilization of the rigth to be in place in a context of resistance.

GRAFFITI

As a form of inscription usually practiced outside the consoring arm of the power elite, graffiti confronts and contradicts the orderer and ordering space of institutionalized life. Thus by definition, graffiti is imbued with a polluting and vandalistic quality irrespective of its decorative potential.

Graffit is thus a particular kindof inscription in public space the written voice of people actually or potentially subordinated by public sentiment and expectation. Such voices include the subordinative propaganda of those in aposition of power who express resistance to other social forces.

A commonthread is tan in both cases the writing inscribes the protagonist onto the land as a rigth of place and self determination.

“ graffiti as a crime of style offers active, playful anarchistic resistance”

This is seen as part of wider battle to reclaim control over the streets and other so called public space, seen as increasingly inder the control of government and corporate authorieties. In marking place ownership is claimed over space and over the rigth to place. Graffiti, like all place marking, is a territorial concern.

Nonetheless graffiti in its final form offers insigth into the relationships between inscriber, relationships that offer lessons about inscriptive behavior more generally.

GRAFFITI AS NORM AND RESISTANCE

Following victor Turner (e.g 1987) Blake used the concept of liminality to adress human behavior in space “ liminal spaces are transitional áreas where social boundaries are blurred and normal rules of conduct and role expectations are held in abeyance or even in oposition”

Because graffitists can trancend social boundaries in liminal spaces, they can express

Themselves and incribe those spaces in ways that also trancend establishead norms.

RESISTANCE AN POWER

Place marking is not justa n assertion of power , buta n expression of resistance.

If this is so, then changes in pattens of place marking in the archaeological record imply changes in social circumstances and patterns of resistance.

Among the wardaman today and during the early european contact period there are

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