In 2019, protests rippled across six continents affecting democracies and autocracies alike with such fervor that journalists repeatedly declared it the year of the street protest. Despite globalization and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place characteristics and thus must be studied in diverse places. This dissertation examines the contentious politics of Germany, a western democracy with a convoluted political history and memory culture. With its cautionary tale of the Nazi movement turned regime, Germany provides an especially valuable context within which to study social memory’s relationship with contentious politics. Based on ten months of fieldwork in Dresden, Berlin, and Munich, this dissertation demonstrates how contentious political actors engage in memory politics and perform, narrate, and employ the materialities of place to (re)mediate multiscalar memories. Inspired by Charles Tilly’s repertoires of contention, the stock of performances and tactics available to contentious political actors, the dissertation examines the role of place memories in present-day contentious politics through corporeal, spatial, and representational repertoires. Corporeal repertoires refer to repeat performances in which meaning making is achieved through the protesting body. As captivating as its visuality may be, it is often the protesting body’s aurality that first signals its presence to passersby. Music, from spontaneous to studio creations, are core to protest soundscapes and the efforts of contentious political actors to reconstruct place. Illustrated through original and appropriated songs, protesting bodies can wield music’s tripartite of meaning making—musical composition, lyrical content, and performance context—to build solidarity, recall a social memory, move bodies to desired political actions, or reimagine geographies. Spatial repertoires shift from the protesting body’s corporeality to its meaning making through mobility in urban space. Protesting bodies, as remembering bodies, occupy or weave together memory places to create new spatial narratives and in turn to (re)construct urban memoryscapes. As placelings, protesters mediate the connections between memory and place and engage in memory work for themselves, for the cities they envision, and/or for a larger imagined community. As exemplified through a historical spatial analysis of Munich digitally mapping 170 years of protest actions (1848–2019), certain places within a given locality become centers of contentious political action because of the deep histories they signify. Shifting from the visible protester to the concealed street artist, representational repertoires refer to meaning making through visual media intimately engaged with the materiality of place. Street art sometimes interacts with institutional memory sites (memory site interactant), but more often floats freely in the larger urban memoryscape thereby transforming liminal spaces into memory places (floating mnemonic actant). Already acknowledged for its placemaking capacity, street art’s mnemonic capacity to push, pull, and play with place memories is demonstrated through various examples commemorating anniversaries, drawing historical analogies, time-shifting historical figures, returning to “better” times, and crafting nascent memories. Evidenced by these chapters, German contentious politics, whether working for a cause or for a political identity, are steeped in social memories and rooted in the meaning making of place. Understood within the wider context of the present democratic crisis, I argue that social memory has become unmoored from the historical past and increasingly mythic in character, especially on the right. Just as democracy suffers from post-truthism and tribalism, so too does social memory. In fact, the memory problem may very well be exacerbating the democratic one. The presence of this problem in Germany, a nation so praised for its memory culture and handling of its dark past, casts great doubt on what constitutes a healthy memory culture. To restore the health of liberal democracies, societies must revisit their relationship to the past. / Media & Communication

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Cette thèse montre que les citadins qui pratiquent les sports de rue, la danse in-situ ou le street art travaillent les espaces publics contemporains. Ils peuvent être associés à des artisans qui modèlent la ville grâce à une expérience sensible, ludique et imaginaire de l'urbain. L'espace public est ainsi réanchanté, mais il est surtout réactivé car son caractère ouvert, hétérogène et dynamique est stimulé. Ces trois activités ont donc une dimension micropolitique parce qu'elles permettent à leur pratiquants de vivre une forme d'utopie urbaine du quotidien en bouleversant l'ordre social et l'ordre des territoires. Cependant, ce travail n'occulte pas certaines contradictions qui complexifient l'analyse de leur impact sur les espaces publics contemporains. Si tous les riders, danseurs ou street artistes contribuent à la perpétuation d'une ville palimpseste, ils n'écrivent pas tous et toujours des phrases totalement renouvelées. / This thesis highlights that people who practice urban sports, outdoor dance, and street art work on contemporary public space. They may also be associated with skilled craftsmen who "shape" the city by a sensitive, playfulness and imaginary experience of urbanity. Public space is becoming more enjoyable, but above all its open, heterogeneous and dynamic character is simulated. These three activities have a micro-political dimension because they give the opportunity to their participants to live a kind of urban utopia and to unravelling social and territorial orders. However, this work doesn't hide some contradictions that make analysis of the impact of respondents on contemporary public space growing in complexity. If every riders, dancers and street artists contribute to the perpetuation of the "palimpsest city", they do not always write some "renew sentences".

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Cette thèse porte sur l'analyse des processus de production des œuvres d'art urbain (de l'art pérenne au street art) pendant la régénération urbaine. L'art joue-t-il un rôle de révélateur, de socle voire de catalyseur du développement des territoires dans un contexte de société événementielle et de compétition métropolitaine ? Ce questionnement prend principalement appui sur une opération d'aménagement dans la métropole parisienne (Zone d'Aménagement Concertée Paris Rive Gauche) et mobilise des cas satellites en Ile-de-France, qui font/ou ont fait l'objet de la prise en compte d'actions artistiques. D'abord, l'idée est de démontrer que l'art joue un rôle grandissant dans et pour le projet urbain, en examinant l'évolution de ses formes, de ses spatialités et des enjeux territoriaux et touristiques qu'il doit servir depuis l'engagement de l'opération en 1991. De plus, il s'agit de mettre en lumière les contraintes, les reconfigurations et les hybridations des pratiques des acteurs des mondes de l'aménagement et de l'art, ainsi que la prise d'importance de professionnels à la croisée de ces mondes, incarnés par les galeristes de street art dans Paris Rive Gauche. Enfin, cette étude se penche sur les effets de la promotion de l'art- et en particulier du street art - sur le statut de centralité et l'image des territoires valorisés. En quoi agit-elle sur la valeur internationalisée de cette image et la transformation des espaces publics en espaces de galeries ? Une attention est portée sur la reproduction de projets similaires dans différents contextes géographiques, les mécanismes de fonctionnement des acteurs impliqués dans les projets et leurs circulations spatiales. / The purpose of this research is to analyse the production processes of urban artworks (from perennial art to street art) within urban regeneration. Does art represents a witness, a base or even a catalyst of the development of territories within the context of the event society and the metropolitan competition? This questioning is mainly based on a development operation in the Parisian metropolis (Zone d'Aménagement Concertée Paris Rive Gauche) and mobilizes satellite examples in Ile de France, which are or have been the subject of artistic actions. This thesis first of all demonstrates that art plays a growing role in and/or the urban project, by examining the evolution of its forms, its spatial features and the territorial and tourist issues that it must serve since the beginning of the operation in 1991. ln addition, it highlights the constraints, the reconfigurations and hybridizations of the behavior of the professionals in the fields of urban and art, well as the growing importance of figures at the crossroad of both fields such as street art galleries in Paris Rive Gauche. Finally, it analyses the effects of the promotion of art - specifically street art - on the status of centrality and the image of the territories. How does it affect the internationalized value of this image and does it transform public spaces into gallery spaces? For this purpose, a special attention is given to the reproduction of similar projects in different geographical contexts, the behavior of the actors involved in the projects and their spatial circulations.

Denna studie menar att det i arkitekturens mellanrum, där vardagslivet tar plats, sker intressanta handlingar som sätter sin prägel på staden och dess invånare. Med ett fokus på urban konst och främst konstfestivaler i det urbana rummet undersöks den offentliga konstens olika ingrepp på platsen och de sociala gemenskaperna i målet att skapa en socialt hållbar stad. Offentlig konst kan i många fall ses som ett estetiskt och vackert inslag i områden. Denna uppsats hävdar dock att den offentliga konsten kan tillskrivas ytterligare ett värde, nämligen det instrumentella.  Urbana konstfestivaler är ett återkommande fenomen och används ofta som ett verktyg i främjandet av en socialt hållbar stad. Ur ett stadsbyggnads- och socialt investeringsperspektiv ska konsten, vare sig det är muralmålningar, skulpturer eller mosaikplattor, göra staden mer sammanlänkad, öka gemenskapen mellan invånare och förhöja känslan av tillhörighet. Den konst som fyller de urbana rummen tillskrivs därför både ett socialt och instrumentellt värde. Genom att studera konstfestivalen Hammarkullen Urban Art 2017 undersöks just denna relation mellan det samhälleliga målet om en socialt hållbar stadsutveckling och de urbana konstverken. Studien menar att det i denna förbindelse uppstår en rad dilemman rörande platsidentitet, platsskapande och platsautenticitet. Frågan som ställs är om urban konst är ett verktyg som är väl lämpat för att nå en sammanlänkad och socialt hållbar stad med högt deltagande? Studien är byggd på empiriskt material insamlat genom en fallstudie av Hammarkullen Urban Art 2017. Genom kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer har personer direkt länkade till konstfestivalen blivit hörda. Då festivalen ägde rum under 2017 har dessa intervjuer i kombination med dokumentanalyser och fältanalyser gett oss en förståelse att urbana konstfestivaler kan bidra med stärkt social hållbarhet. Dock kan nyttjandet av konsten i detta avseende bära med sig dilemman rörande platsers säregna kvalitéer. Avslutningsvis visar studien att urbana konstfestivaler har en inneboende motstridighet. Trots att den urbana konsten tenderar att vara ett demokratiserande verktyg för att öppna upp staden rum, syns även spår av marknadens intrång. Den offentliga konsten har blivit ett verktyg för städer och områden att profilera sig på. Detta går även att se i studiens fokusområde Hammarkullen. I och med inkorporerandet av Hammarkullen Urban Art 2017:s konstverk i stadsbilden förstärks bilden av området som kulturellt nav. / With a focus on urban art, and especially street art festivals, this study examines the various impacts public art can have on urban spaces and the social communities. This study suggests that, in the interspaces of urban architecture, interesting phenomena connected to urban art makes its mark on the city and its inhabitants. Public art can in many cases be seen as an aesthetic and beautiful element. However, the authors behind this work claim that public art can be attributed another value, namely the instrumental. From an urban planning perspective, art should make the city more interlinked, increase fellowship between residents and increase the sense of belonging. Moreover, it also increases welfare, profit and health. The question asked is whether urban art and street art festivals are a tool that is well suited to reach an interconnected and socially sustainable city?  The study is based on empirical material collected through a case study of Hammar- kullen Urban Art 2017. Through qualitative research interviews, the voices of people with a connection to the street art festival have been collected through interviews. As the festival took place in 2017, these interviews in combination with analyses of documents and field studies gave the study a reliable result on how urban art festivals can contribute to strengthening social sustainability. However, with the use of art in this aspect, dilemmas can follow concerning the peculiar qualities of places. Street art festivals are often used as a tool in the promotion of a socially sustainable city. By studying the street art festival Hammarkullen Urban Art 2017 the relationship between the societal goal of a socially sustainable city and the urban works of art is examined. Public art has become a tool for cities and areas to profile themselves in a different way from their previous image. The study claims that a number of dilemmas arise in the context between the societal goal and the urban art regarding place identity, placemaking and authenticity.  The study concludes that street art festivals have an inherent contradiction and are rather a tool for cities to promote themselves to fulfil the dominant culture’s desire for authenticity than a means to beautify the urban spaces. This position can also be seen in the Hammarkullen area as the incorporation of Hammarkullen Urban Art 2017’s artwork strengthens its identity as a cultural hub.

Les images dans toute leur diversité, installées dans l'espace urbain composent notre objet d'étude. Ainsi, à partir de l'analyse d'un vaste corpus composé de photographies et de cartes, collectés durant un long période dans le centre-ville de Santiago, l'enjeu est de saisir l'objet image-contexte qui d'après une description cas-à-cas, nous permettra l'analyse de l'image en situation. Dont le but est l'observation du rôle des images dans la construction de l'espace urbain et en tant que composant fondamental de notre environnement quotidien. De ce fait, divers aspects apparaissent peu à peu le long du travail telles que ; la distribution des images en relation au rapport des forces des pouvoirs quelles représentent et dans l'ensemble révèlent les pratiques spatiales du groupe social, de voir comment l'image transforme l'espace et l'espace redéfinit l'image, la relation entre image et architecture, entre la dynamique des images et les dynamiques urbaines et l'irruption des nouvelles technologies dans l'espace urbain. En somme, tout au long de notre travail de recherche nous poursuivons la constitution progressive de l'image en situation en tant qu'objet de terrain et élément essentiel qui façonnera le paysage visuel des villes dans le XXIe siècle / Images, in all their diversity, present in the urban environment, form the subject of our study. Thus, with the starting point a vast cache of photographs and cards, collected over a long period in Santiago city-center, the issue involves comprehending the image/context as a whole, a task that, after a case-by-case examination, will allow us to analyze the image as an integral part of its location. The goal, therefore, is the observation of the role of images in the construction of the urban environment and as fundamental components of our everyday surroundings. In this way, various aspects come to the fore throughout the process: the distribution of images relative to the power of the forces they represent reveals, in the whole, the spatial activities of the social group; the way in which the image transforms the space and the space in turn redefines the image; the relationship between image and architecture; between the dynamics of the image and the urban dynamics; and, lastly, the impact of new technologies on the urban landscape. In summation, throughout our research we have followed the progressive existence of location-specific imagery as an object in its own right and an essential element that will shape the visual landscape of cities in the 21st century

Since the 1970s, when neoliberal policies and changing consumer patterns began remaking cities, scholars have conducted research about gentrification. In New Orleans, these studies have helped explain the demographic and economic shifts in some neighborhoods. However, there has been limited focus on the built environment aspects of gentrification in New Orleans, specifically the interpretation of the external aesthetic shifts in streetscapes as part of the gentrification process. This thesis examines the relationship between these aesthetics, primarily graffiti and street art, and the gentrification process, as perceived by various stakeholders in two New Orleans neighborhoods: St. Roch and Bywater. Using empirical, qualitative evidence, this thesis argues that graffiti and street art signify a culture and aestheticization of gentrification. Research methods for this thesis include participant observation, semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis. Keywords: Gentrification, New Orleans, Bywater, St. Roch, graffiti, street art, neighborhood change, blight, disinvestment, revitalization, creative class, neoliberalism, race, authenticity

A multiplicidade das pinturas e escrituras murais na cidade de São Paulo desde os anos 1970 até os dias de hoje não evidencia uma ordem ou hierarquias que permitam separar uma assinatura rabiscada com um giz de cera em um muro de uma pintura de várias cores com tinta spray, pichação enquanto mero vandalismo do graffiti enquanto pintura mural elaborada. O que o presente trabalho busca mostrar é que cada um dos grandes grupos que compõe as diversas vertentes de pintura e escritura mural praticadas na cidade de São Paulo tem suas próprias matrizes, exemplos e muitas vezes regras estritas de procedimento e valoração interna. A busca por uma separação entre grandes grupos se dá na primeira parte da dissertação, ao sugerir uma história em ordem cronológica dos maiores grupos que se estabeleceram durante o final da década de 1970 e toda a década de 1980, traçando referências e pontos de contato desses grupos com outras práticas análogas no resto do mundo. A segunda parte do trabalho busca estabelecer alguns conceitos que podem ajudar a entender o desenvolvimento de alguns desses grupos e indivíduos. Em seguida o trabalho de alguns praticantes será analisado a fim de propor uma quebra com a linhagem formadora inicial desses mesmos. / The multiplicity of mural paintings and writings practiced in the city of São Paulo, starting in the 1970s until today, could elude a certain order or hierarchies that could allow the distinction between a scribble made with crayon on a wall or a painting made with various spray paint colors, between tagging (often called pichação in Brazil) and graffiti (usually the name given to more elaborate mural paintings). What this work tries to achieve is to show that every major group that forms the different strands of mural painting and writing practiced in the city of São Paulo has its own roots, visual examples, and oftentimes strict rules of proceeding and internal valuation. The search for the separation of these groups will be presented in the first part of the dissertation, which suggests a chronological story of the main groups that were established during the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s in São Paulo, tracing the main references and points of contact between these groups and its analogue practices around the world. The second part is concerned with presenting certain concepts that try to help and understand the development of some of those groups and individuals. Following, the work of certain particular individuals will be analysed in order to propose a certain break from the formative lineage of these practitioners.

A partir da fundamentação da documentação e dos recursos de história oral esta pesquisa apresenta uma proposta de método documentário para artes performáticas de rua. Cinco artistas atuantes na cidade de São Paulo foram selecionados para documentarem suas memórias sobre o tema de artes de rua, e tiveram sua execução artística gravada no formato audiovisual. O método consiste em três etapas qualitativas de captação e tratamento documentário utilizando-se das tecnologias digitais, a saber, a pré-entrevista gravada em áudio, o registro da atuação in loco dos artistas na rua e finalmente uma entrevista roteirizada pelas etapas anteriores gravada em vídeo em um estúdio. O referencial teórico baseia-se nos estudos de memória de Ecléa Bosi e no conceito de Hibridização Cultural de Nestor Garcia Canclini. Concluímos a importância da memória dos artistas para a história das cidades, como também constatamos os desafios conceituais e práticos enfrentados ao se pensar a documentação de artistas de rua na contemporaneidade. / From the basis of documentation and oral history resources this research proposes a documentary method for performing arts street. Five artists working in the city of São Paulo were selected to document their memories about street art theme, and had their artistic performance recorded in audiovisual format. The method consists of three qualitative steps capture and documentary treatment using digital technology, namely the recorded pre-audio interview, the record of action in place of artists in the street and finally an interview scripted by the previous steps recorded in video in a studio. The theoretical framework is based on Ecléa Bosi memory studies and the concept of Cultural Hybridization Néstor García Canclini. We conclude the importance of memory of artists to the history of cities, but also found the conceptual challenges and faced practical when considering the documentation of street performers in contemporary times.