ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the development of graffiti art from mere self-expression into a tool for political activism and resistance. It discusses how far graffiti is about a struggle over the definition of space and the claims to the ownership of that space. The chapter focuses on the extent to which works of art have been employed as means for political activism and can work as counter flows of information against hegemonic power structures. Analysis of the potential of social media networks in political activism, particularly during the Arab Spring revolutions, has been thoroughly studied. Modernity and postmodernity are partly characterized by the emergence of subcultural identities, which tend to break away from the mainstream and develop various tools for resistance and survival. In the contour of murals rests the manifestation of a power struggle between the state and marginalized civilians, and in those realms excluded voices tend to extend and demonstrate their agency.
