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Dissertation
Hidden in Plain Sight: Craft, Crime, and Community in New York City's Urban Exploration Scene
2022
Overview
Urban explorers recreationally trespass into hidden-in-plain-sight spaces as a form of risky adventure and leisure. They come together as an urban creative community, motivated both by embodied experience of the urban environment and creative expression via photography. The practice of urban exploration (\"urbex\") is both risky and illegal, on one hand, and visually creative and, in its current iteration, highly social media oriented on the other hand. This analysis focuses on how urban explorers in New York City navigate these various tensions in their creative practices: between anonymous creative accomplishment and social media fame, and between the moral and the illegal. The resulting analysis, based on over two years of ethnographic and interview fieldwork with New York explorers, examines how - through interaction and participation in scene culture - individual explorers arrive at an understanding of who they are, what they do, and how it shapes their experience of city space.
