Affiliation:
1. University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Abstract
Protest graffiti as visual activism provides a democratic space for demonstrators to articulate their narratives.
Nevertheless, the lack of leadership in the Chilean social outburst in 2019 becomes a challenge in outlining its impact. Thus,
this article provides an empirical case of political graffiti and explains how graffiti had a constitutive role in the social
movement and the immediate country’s political course after that. This paper proposes a transdisciplinary approach by combining
the analysis of graffiti as contextual texts (Pennycook, 2007) with ‘collective action
frames’ in studying political graffiti collected in a six-kilometre walk in Santiago, Chile. As a result, graffiti frameworks of
injustice denounce the state and police violence; frameworks of agency tend to organise protesters’ ideas for change, such as a
new constitution and the end of the current pension systems; and a strong sense of feminism conforms part of identity frames.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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