Just urban space : street art and spatial justice
Arvidsson, Matilda LU and Bengtsen, Peter LU
(2024)
p.21-41
- Abstract
- This chapter presents the notion of spatial justice as a way of considering the relationship between law and street art in a manner beyond the legal/illegal dichotomy. Through a series of empirical examples, it is demonstrated how street art literally takes a place already taken and imposes itself in an already appropriated urban public space. Street art thus ´redefines the space in contestation to law. However, street art is ephemeral and its taking of space is not permanent. Street art points to an alternative spatial definition, one of spatial justice, before – and, indeed, while – withdrawing from the space it occupies. Street art creates a rupture in the lawscape which makes explicit the presence and claims of law, thereby also making... (More)
- This chapter presents the notion of spatial justice as a way of considering the relationship between law and street art in a manner beyond the legal/illegal dichotomy. Through a series of empirical examples, it is demonstrated how street art literally takes a place already taken and imposes itself in an already appropriated urban public space. Street art thus ´redefines the space in contestation to law. However, street art is ephemeral and its taking of space is not permanent. Street art points to an alternative spatial definition, one of spatial justice, before – and, indeed, while – withdrawing from the space it occupies. Street art creates a rupture in the lawscape which makes explicit the presence and claims of law, thereby also making the need for law’s other – justice – pronounced. The question of relationality between law and street art which we bring forth in the present article plays itself out as a production of space and spatial justice in an exchange of place-taking, withdrawal and pronunciation, law and street art. Spatial justice, as we perceive it here, is thus a way of thinking about law and street art not simply as polar opposites, but rather as co-dependent and bound together in an ongoing process of oscillation, mutual reinforcement and creativity. (Less)
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- author
- Arvidsson, Matilda
LU
and Bengtsen, Peter
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-09-15
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Law, graffiti, spatial justice, street art, justice, art, Banksy, gadekunst, gatekunst, public space, public art, Juridik, gatukonst, graffiti, rättvisa, street art, konst, Banksy
- host publication
- Urban Creativity : Essays on interventions in public space - Essays on interventions in public space
- editor
- Hannerz, Erik and Bengtsen, Peter
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Dokument Press
- ISBN
- 978-91-89944-02-2
- 978-91-88369-92-5
- project
- The Urban Creativity Pufendorf IAS Theme
- Urban Creativity Lund
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1cb1e888-ff72-4a33-a3f0-9b7c6686c7bb
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