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Chapter Two - Street Justice

Graffiti and Claims-Making in Urban Public Space

from Part One - Im/possibilities of Everyday Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

Sandra Brunnegger
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University of Cambridge
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Summary

It is getting increasingly difficult to avoid the notion that justice claims are not limited to the formal venues of law or even the public accountability processes of journalism, but are also expressed in everyday activities of public outreach. We can see this outreach in informal efforts toward mass communication, in graffiti and Internet communication (and connections between the two, as we will see) oriented toward passers-by and browsers, consumers of information, the possible-to-convince sympathizers of the plights of others. This non-professional realm of justice claims tells us something about the extent to which justice is experienced and expressed outside the law, but at the same time through the influence of law. Human rights in particular can be seen as a source of inspiration and expression of new and emerging forms of rights-consciousness and the public expression of grievance.

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Everyday Justice
Law, Ethnography, Injustice
, pp. 37 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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