Graffiti and urban space in Istanbul

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2007

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Sarıyıldız, Hatice Özlem

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The aim of this study is to uncover and discuss the spaces appropriated by graffiti writers and to reveal out the possible resistances involved in the act throughout the writers’ motivations, characteristics, spaces they produce and all over process they are entering into together with the specifications of graffiti in Turkey. It demands to unfold the possibilities sheltered in everyday practices looking through graffiti and subsequently revealing out possibilities in graffiti looking through everyday life. It sees the urban space as a social product, which is incomplete without the tactics of the inhabitants and redefined as a result of appropriation. It looks through the history of graffiti, graffiti writers, their motivations and descriptions, working mechanism of the act, spaces chosen and their overall relations to power placed upon urban space in regard to its predescribed theoretical framework reaching out an integrated explanation on play/game theory and resistance it describes. It claims graffiti as a game of the juveniles acting in urban space as their playground.

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Culture., Progress .

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608345/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16836

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H. Ö. Sarıyıldız, “Graffiti and urban space in Istanbul,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.