Apr 1, 2014-2014
India
Graffiti on Garbage
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ACTIVISTS/ACT.GROUPS/DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP
Deku
TARGET
New Delhi city government
WIDELY HELD BELIEF
That neighbourhoods, particularly high-income ones like South Delhi, should maintain a certain sanitation standard for its inhabitants.
CASE NARRATIVE
Issue and Opponent: Densely populated Delhi, India, has a considerable sanitation challenge. This is particularly noticeable in South Delhi, where despite having a more affluent population, sanitation is not handled.
Dilemma Action: A Delhi-based graffiti artist named Deku began spray painting on the overflowing garbage cans around the neighborhood of South Delhi, one of the higher-income locations in the city. This was to bring attention to the fact that civil bodies have done little to clean the city. The graffiti should force them to either begin cleaning the garbage or ignore the outlandishly spray-painted garbage cans around the neighborhood.
Outcomes: No outcome yet. The graffiti remains on the garbage cans, adding to the continuing urban decay of the neighborhood.
PRIMARY STRUGGLE/GOAL
NONVIOLENT TACTICS USED
DA TACTICS USED
Social disobedience
CASE NARRATIVE WRITER
SUCCESS METRICS
7 / 12
(EREP) Dilemma action got replicated by other movements
(MC) Media Coverage
(PUN) Punishment favored the activists
(RF) Dilemma action reduced fear and/or apathy among the activists
(SA) Dilemma action appealed to a broad segment of the public
Artivism
Laugtivism
PART OF A LARGER CAMPAIGN
0 / 3
RESOURCES
Project documentation
Dilemma Actions Coding Guidebook
Case study documentation
Dilemma_Actions_Analysis_Dataset
SOURCES
Garima. 2016. “Graffiti on Garbage,” Actipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2023. (https://actipedia.org/project/graffiti-garbage).
Kaur, Nehmat. 2012. “Cans & Roses: Guerrilla artists on Indian street,” The Economic Times, August 8. Retrieved July 23, 2023. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cans-roses-guerrilla-artists-on-indian-street/articleshow/15540495.cms?from=mdr).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-IRTB08557. Accesed April 15, 2022.
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