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Article Dans Une Revue Discourse and Society Année : 2019

Political graffiti in May 2018 at Nanterre University: A linguistic ethnographic analysis

Camille Debras

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Fifty years after May 68, spring 2018 in France was marked by mass student protest against the Parcoursup/ORE reform of university entry. After a riot police intervention on campus, Nanterre University was blocked and occupied. It was profoundly affected, both as a community and as a physical site. This linguistic ethnographic study proposes a systematic analysis of more than 500 physical interventions (political graffiti, tags and posters) on the campus during that period, to identify the functions of graffiti as political discourse. The graffiti (1) expressed resistance, reclaimed the university's identity and manifested presence on site; (2) established dialogue with local and national authorities and (3) anchored the movement in a larger web of historical references and sites of political resistance. A striking feature was the complex indexicality of the graffiti. Each item was relevant at multiple scales beyond the here and now, anchoring graffiti in larger networks of relations, which endowed them with political power.
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Camille Debras. Political graffiti in May 2018 at Nanterre University: A linguistic ethnographic analysis. Discourse and Society, 2019, 30 (5), pp.441-464. ⟨10.1177/0957926519855788Discourse⟩. ⟨hal-03110754⟩
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