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Graffiti in sports centres. An exploratory study in East Flanders - In 72 sports centres (soccer stadiums, athletics tracks, swimming pools, sporting halls, tennis and squash courts, sporting and recreation centres) 908 graffiti were recorded and categorized thematically as follows: inscriptions of names, sexual, references to sport, personal and situational, politics, nonsense, music, religion, drugs. No significant correlation was found between the kind of adminstration affected (public, private) and the frequency of graffiti. There is a higher number of references to sex in swimming pools while there are more to sport in soccer stadiums. Each type of sports infrastructure has a place which invites graffiti(e.g. in swimming pools: individual changing rooms). References to violence and stimulating pep talk are most common of all. Writing on walls reveals a hidden side of society and reflects present-day problems.
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How to Cite: Vervoort, L. & Lievens, S. (1989) “Graffiti in sportcentra: een exploratief onderzoek in Oost-Vlaanderen”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen. 34(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95004