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Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies

open access: yes, 2020
This paper argues that graffiti can provide a form of socio-political commentary at the local level, and is a valuable, yet often overlooked, resource for scholars and policymakers in conflict-affected societies.
Birte Vogel   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

La Pratique du Graffiti comme Fragment de la Rhétorique Amoureuse

open access: yesAltralang Journal
: As a discursive practice, graffiti reveals many aspects of social life. On the one hand, it evokes the daily struggles of a community and, on the other, the graffiti artist’s emotions.
Amina DJAÏB, Farida TILIKETE
doaj   +1 more source

Bioremoval of graffiti using novel commercial strains of bacteria.

open access: yesScience of the Total Environment, 2020
Previous studies have provided evidence that bioremediation deals a novel approach to graffiti removal, thereby overcoming well-known limitations of current cleaning methods. In the present study eight bacteria aerobic, mesophilic and culturable from the
Cristina Cattò   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Graffiti Identification System Using Low-Cost Sensors.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
This article introduces the possibility of studying graffiti using a colorimeter developed with Arduino hardware technology according to the Do It Yourself (DIY) philosophy.
Miguel García García   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maintenance epistemology and public order: Removing graffiti in Paris

open access: yesSocial Studies of Science, 2020
Taking part in the growing concern for repair and maintenance in STS, this article investigates epistemic dimensions of maintenance. Drawing on an ethnographic study of graffiti removal in Paris, it highlights the different objects of knowledge involved ...
J-E Denis, David Pontille
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

The Graffiti Solution [PDF]

open access: yes
Graffiti is regarded by many as a blight on our cities because it contributes to visual pollution. City governments spend vast sums in an effort to clean the ubiquitous graffiti from urban walls. I suggest that the ^Scleansing strategy^T is an expensive,
J.S. Armstrong
core  

Reader\u27s Interpretation on Social Criticism Toward Soeharto Found in Truck Graffiti [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Meliana, Ike. 2014. Reader\u27s Interpretation on Social criticism toward Soeharto Found In Truck Graffiti. Study Program of English. Universitas Brawijaya. Supervisor: NurulChojimah.
MELIANA, I. (IKE)
core   +2 more sources

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