Street Art of Resistance

1. Introducing the Street Art of Resistance
Sarah H. Awad, Brady Wagoner

Part I. Theories of Aesthetics, Resistance and Social Change

2. Art and Social Change: The Role of Creativity and Wonder
Vlad Petre Glăveanu

3. Subjectivity, Aesthetics, and the Nexus of Injustice: From Traditional to Street Art
Thomas Teo

4. Resisting Forms: Prolegomena to an Aesthetics of Resistance
Robert E. Innis

Part II. Image Circulation and Politics

5. Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism
Guisela Latorre

6. The Resistance Passed Through Here: Arabic Graffiti of Resistance, Before and After the Arab Uprisings
Rana Jarbou

7. The Arabic Language as Creative Resistance
Basma Hamdy

Part III. Urban Space: The City as an Extension of Self

8. Speaking Walls: Contentious Memories in Belfast’s Murals
Daniela Vicherat Mattar

9. Inventive ReXistence: Notes on Brazil Graffiti and City Tension
Andrea Vieira Zanella

10. Embodied Walls and Extended Skins: Exploring Mental Health Through Tataus and Graffiti
Jamie Mcphie

11. Indigenous Graffiti and Street Art as Resistance
Matthew Ryan Smith

Part IV. Artists and Social Movements

12. Representations of Resistance: Ironic Iconography in a Southern Mexican Social Movement
Jayne Howell

13. The Democratic Potential of Artistic Expression in Public Space: Street Art and Graffiti as Rebellious Acts
Cecilia Schøler Nielsen

14. The Aesthetics of Social Movements in Spain
Óscar García Agustín

15. Sheherazade Says No: Artful Resistance in Contemporary Egyptian Political Cartoon
Mohamed M. Helmy, Sabine Frerichs

Keywords: Psychology, Psychosocial Studies, Community and Environmental Psychology, Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology, Arts