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This analysis demonstrates how urban art reshapes public spaces and fosters community agency, suggesting implications for territorial disputes.
This article analyses urban art in Havana, Santiago de Chile, and Montevideo, exploring how graffiti and street art reshape neighbourhood meanings and contest public space. From a socio-spatial perspective, it examines how these practices foster community agency, resist territorial stigma, and mobilize collective memory. Urban art emerges as symbolic resistance that redefines power relations and questions exclusionary policies. Through case studies, the paper highlights the tension between institutional recognition and autonomy, revealing how artists negotiate legitimacy and participation while advancing self-managed, community-based cultural production and alternative forms of representation within broader struggles for the right to the city.
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