Graffiti as a voice for marginalized and active communities: the case of Lavapiés, Madrid
The linguistic landscape constitutes a space of contestation that reveals numerous identities, ideological conflicts, and socio-political power relations. Using a qualitative content analysis framework, this paper analyzes the ideological conflicts of a Madrid neighborhood through the study of the g...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/65923 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/65923 https://dx.doi.org/10.37536/LYM.1.17.2025.2504 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Graffiti Linguistic landscape Lavapiés Identity Sociopolitical ideologies Grafiti Paisaje lingüístico Identidad Ideologías socio-políticas Lingüística Sociología Linguistics Sociology |
| Sumario: | The linguistic landscape constitutes a space of contestation that reveals numerous identities, ideological conflicts, and socio-political power relations. Using a qualitative content analysis framework, this paper analyzes the ideological conflicts of a Madrid neighborhood through the study of the graffiti displayed in its public sphere. This article focuses on Lavapiés, a complex globalized area shared by tourists, locals, and immigrants whose reputation for diversity draws people seeking to engage with interculturality and multilingualism, turning Lavapiés into a gentrified space. Graffiti can operate as a symbolic marker of solidarity, resistance, discrimination, and empowerment in communities with diverse cultural, political, and social characteristics and, consequently, its exploration can reveal counter-narratives to majority and dominant voices. Due to the gentrification and touristification processes that Lavapiés is undergoing, different frames of meaning related to identity negotiation and representation, as well as to socio-political identities, were found in its linguistic landscape. |
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