Resistance through the Temporality, Placement, and Modification of Street Art in Scotland’s Streets

Through a methodology of ethnographic walking and photographic documentation this article considers redefines street art within the contexts disciplines Ethnology Folklore. By considering wide-ranging Scottish examples public-facing interventions through concepts temporality, placement location, modification defacement, contributes to wider scholarly general discussion on role importance in our everyday lives. It argues for significance usefulness these conceptual frameworks, which not only link Scotland around world, but also reveal common hybrid physical online nature much art. The included public are almost all connected theme resistance, whether personal, local, national, or international. Examples explored relate Independence Referendum, anti-gentrification campaigning, Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement, trans rights activism, Russian invasion Ukraine.