Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe

<p>This theoretically and empirically grounded book uses case studies of political graffiti in the post-socialist Balkans and Central Europe to explore the use of graffiti as a subversive political media.</p><p>Despite the increasing global digitisation graffiti remains widespread and popular providing with a few words or images a vivid visual indication of cultural conditions social dynamics and power structures in a society and provoking a variety of reactions. Using qualitative and quantitative methods as well as detailed interdisciplinary analyses of patriotic extreme-right soccer-fan nostalgic and chauvinist graffiti and street art it looks at why and by whom graffiti is used as political media and to/against whom it is directed. The book theorises discussions of political graffiti and street art to show different methodological approaches from four perspectives: context author the work itself and audience.</p><p>It will be of interest to the growing body of literature focussing on (sub)cultural studies in the contemporary Balkans transitology visual cultural studies art theory anthropology sociology and studies of radical politics.</p>