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Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 67-84, March 2026.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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The trickster and the prison house: The Bakhtinian dimension of ‘the carnivalesque’ in Breyten Breytenbach’s True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist

Literator, 1995
This paper undertakes an analysis of Breytenbach’s prison book in terms of the autobiographer's psychological response to his experience of incarceration.
I. Dimitriu
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The Rubberbandits’ Guide to Satire: Absurdism and Social Commentary in a Cross-Media Environment [PDF]

Estudios Irlandeses, 2021
This paper argues that through an engagement with cross-media hybridity, Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits have established a dynamic cross-media forum that aims to restore the Irish public’s capacity for critical social and political engagement ...
Faye Mercier
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From Repertoires to Recipes: Rethinking Political Organisation in the Long 19th Century*

Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 188-202, February 2026.
Abstract This article examines approaches to the history of 19th‐century politics in Britain and Ireland in order to propose fruitful directions for further debate. It argues that historians should return to a more holistic view of the practices of political action and democratisation, reframing the divide between social movements, parties and popular ...
Richard Huzzey, Katrina Navickas
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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 11-26, February 2026.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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The Politics of Laughter: Political Uses of Memes Circulating on WhatsApp

Journalism and Media
New media technologies have enabled freedom of expression through platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. These freedoms are amplified through engagement with jokes and memes circulating on these platforms. The study analyzes the political uses
Nkosini Aubrey Khupe
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World: In Practice Explorations

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 46, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In a preceding theoretical paper, six concepts from Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World are described. They include laughter; the language of the marketplace/billingsgate; the body and the bodily lower stratum; ambivalence; the grotesque; and carnival and the carnivalesque.
Kristof Mikes‐Liu
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The Hybridity of Popular Culture in The Winter’s Tale

Sillages Critiques, 2011
In his foreword to The Faithful Shepherdess (1609), John Fletcher blames the crass popular tastes of his theatre audiences for failing to respond properly to the new genre of tragicomedy. Shakespeare was careful to make no such mistake.
François Laroque
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Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos: Abject Transgression in Batman Returns, the Nightmare Before Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands

The Journal of American Culture, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 184-190, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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