To take in our surroundings as the adrenaline subsides. Out fluorescent strip light in the distance – somehow still electrified. The shaft water pools on the floor, reflecting our torch lights and the dirty yellow ember of a burnt Layers of crustĬrunch and break away from the rungs of the access ladders as I grab at them. Shaft that plunges downward beneath our feet. We are stood on a grilled metal gantry platform at the top of a twenty-or-so-metre-deep circular Our torch beams sweep through a haze of dust that hangs suspended in the air. I turn on my headtorch with a click and the darkness The air is thick with a sour mouldy smell. The hatch over my head, pulling it shut with a resounding CL-UNKKK that reverberates through Our rucksacks down, before squeezing into the manhole. Once Andy is at the bottom of the ladder, I pass Passers-by gaze oblivious into their smartphones. Workmen, who might call our bluff) – I heave open a hatch in the middle of the pavement as After a quick glance up and down the street – (no police, or, for that matter, actual Of work gloves, snapping their elasticated cuffs against my wrists as we saunter back across the Plausibility that allows the wearer to transgress spatial boundaries unquestioned. It is a deceptively simpleĭisguise: the anonymous uniform of construction and maintenance workers confers an aura of
Quickly wriggling into scratchy orange hi-vis vests and donning hard hats. We skulk down a side street, out of view of the evening traffic and swivelling CCTV cameras Theo Kindynis, Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, Hirst 202, Roehampton Lane, London, Those of us that give a fuck this is our archaeology. Shit like this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but for Yes! It’s only a couple of names … but it’s also memories, a story of identity,ĭistant screams for recognition frozen in time then fleetingly glanced before they are Theory and method, and asks what significance can be drawn from unauthorised encountersĬultural criminology, ghost ethnography, graffiti, hauntology, spectral, urban exploration The fourth and final part of the article seeks to connect The third part of the article offers some Lingering material and atmospheric traces of the past. Here, ghosts and haunting provide useful conceptual metaphors for thinking about The second part of the article considers recent theoretical work associated with the ‘spectral Places an emphasis on absence and the interpretation of material and atmospheric traces. Studies of graffiti and ‘ghost ethnography’, an emergent methodological orientation which Unauthorised urban exploration and documentation more-or-less formal archaeological The first part reflects on three sources of methodological inspiration: TheĪrticle also draws on extensive ethnographic research into London’s graffiti subculture, as wellĪs in-depth semi-structured interviews with several generations of graffiti writers. Years - or even decades - old surviving traces of graffiti (‘ghosts’, in graffiti parlance) in situ. Subterranean and infrastructural spaces, this article considers the significance of discovering CMC0010.1177/1741659017730435Crime, Media, CultureKindynisīased on several years of near-nightly excursions into London’s disused, non-public, forgotten,
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