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Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries
Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite burgeoning street art scenes in many African countries since the early 2000s, African street art is relatively neglected...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35702711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102692 |
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author | McEwan, Cheryl Szablewska, Lucy Lewis, Kate V. Nabulime, Lilian M. |
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description | Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite burgeoning street art scenes in many African countries since the early 2000s, African street art is relatively neglected in critical street art scholarship. In response, this paper examines street art created during the pandemic in East African countries, principally Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania, and explores the ways in which it is engaged in highly distinctive forms of public-making. Drawing primarily on qualitative online interviews with East African artists creating street art, and image analysis using online search tools, the paper argues that street art in urban areas is attempting to create knowledgeable publics through countering disinformation about the pandemic, to responsiblize publics through public health messaging and, through community activism, to build resilient publics. The paper concludes that street art is potentially an important tool in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in East African countries due to the proximity, and mutual constitution of, creative practices and publics, which emerge from the embedding of street art within the social spaces of cities and everyday experiences of the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-91808762022-06-10 Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries McEwan, Cheryl Szablewska, Lucy Lewis, Kate V. Nabulime, Lilian M. Polit Geogr Full Length Article Street artists around the world have been prominent in depicting issues concerning COVID-19, but the role of street art in public-making during the pandemic is unexplored. Despite burgeoning street art scenes in many African countries since the early 2000s, African street art is relatively neglected in critical street art scholarship. In response, this paper examines street art created during the pandemic in East African countries, principally Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania, and explores the ways in which it is engaged in highly distinctive forms of public-making. Drawing primarily on qualitative online interviews with East African artists creating street art, and image analysis using online search tools, the paper argues that street art in urban areas is attempting to create knowledgeable publics through countering disinformation about the pandemic, to responsiblize publics through public health messaging and, through community activism, to build resilient publics. The paper concludes that street art is potentially an important tool in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in East African countries due to the proximity, and mutual constitution of, creative practices and publics, which emerge from the embedding of street art within the social spaces of cities and everyday experiences of the pandemic. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-10 2022-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9180876/ /pubmed/35702711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102692 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Full Length Article McEwan, Cheryl Szablewska, Lucy Lewis, Kate V. Nabulime, Lilian M. Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries |
title | Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries |
title_full | Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries |
title_fullStr | Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries |
title_short | Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries |
title_sort | public-making in a pandemic: the role of street art in east african countries |
topic | Full Length Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35702711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102692 |
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