Toluca: Bibliometric Analysis

To identify studies and projects similar to Uncomfortable Footprints, we carried out a literature review in Scopus. The term "Uncomfortable Footprints" was first searched for, which did not exist in previous research indexed by Scopus.

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We then carried out searches with different keywords close to the interest of the project, such as difficult heritage, feminism, street art, graffiti and vandalism. The objective of these searches was to find relationships between the different topics and to identify articles similar to the goals of Uncomfortable Footprints.

We downloaded the data with the results of these searches. To create the visualizations for each search, we used VosViewer to identify the relationships between the topics close to the project.

The first term that was searched was difficult heritage, which is a term that we initially thought to be close to the project's objectives. However, we found that this term is used mainly to explain events related to the Holocaust, fascism and the World Wars, so there was not a relationship as close as expected. Figure 1 shows a visualization made with VosViewer that shows the topics that are related to the term difficult heritage.

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We then carried out a search in Scopus with the keyword feminism, limited to the period from 2017 to 2020. With the results, we made a visualization that shows the main themes related to feminism. Feminism was found to have links to multiple themes, but not all of them were related to the goals of Uncomfortable Footprints. For example, research on feminism was related to issues such as protest, activism, and students, but there was no relationship to terms such as graffiti, painting, or urban intervention. The results of this search are presented in Figure 2.

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Afterwards, we did a narrower search with the words: feminism AND graffiti AND street art in all of Scopus search fields. 283 documents were found that show a relationship between the themes of vandalism, graffiti, gender, and protest. These links between the topics are shown in Figure 3.

 

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This last search also allowed us to identify other articles that studied similar phenomena to those that Uncomfortable Footprints is interested in documenting and preserving. These articles are included in Table 6.

 

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Conclusions

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This search allowed us to locate documents on topics similar to the interests of Uncomfortable Footprints. It can be concluded that there is very little material directly related to this new field of study. In particular there is a large amount of information on feminism, protests, student movements. There is also information on graffiti or street art, but it is close related to the artistic and materials area than to social movement issues (although there is a relationship).
From the traditional academic point of view, the link between feminist movements and pints is linked to issues of vandalism. Most of the studies on graffiti and graffiti analyze the technical part (conservation, materials to preserve buildings, etc.), but the social significance is not highlighted. It is necessary to define the field of study theoretically. There are few studies related to the subject that we are interested on. Tolkačevski's (2020) text may give some hints. Similarly, it is necessary to recreate the search in Scielo, to give regional coverage.