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Zabawa w mieście: przypadek shoefiti
Fun in the city: a case of shoefiti

Author(s): Magdalena Szalbot
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: shoefiti; play; urban space

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a voice in the current of research on ludic behaviour realized within the social and cultural space of the contemporary city. The object of study is a phenomenon known on the Internet as shoefiti. The article approaches the practice of throwing shoes tied together with shoe strings onto electric or telephone cables as a category of ludic behaviour. I present the results of existing studies and indicate further research possibilities.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 167-178
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish