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What Constitutes 'Discrimination' in Everyday Talk? Argumentative Lines and the Social Representations of Discrimination [PDF]
Most people agree that discrimination is wrong, but the boundary between 'discrimination' and 'not discrimination' is often highly contested in everyday practice.
Andreouli, Eleni +3 more
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Graphic and political humour in Argentina: from Quino to Página 12
The article analyses the tradition of critical cartoons in Argentina using the lens of Freud’s conception of humour. After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983 Rudy and Daniel Paz created a new style that came to be known as “ethical
L. Feierstein
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Humor of the intimate: Female humor and women policies in Turkey
This study focuses on the women policies of the Turkish government and the female humour that is created in response to these policies. A humour magazine is used as the main source since this specific magazine, which is named Bayan Yanı (The Seat Next to
Şenay Yavuz Görkem
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The British film industry: creativity and constraint [PDF]
An article on the potential impact of the changes to film policy, culture and infrastructure in light of significant changes in 2010 ...
Barrow, Sarah E.
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Political cartoons can function as a means of monitoring the level of press freedom, of government’s tolerance of free speech, and their resistance to challenges posed by opposition. It may also be argued that in this digital age the aforesaid barometric
Khin-Wee Chen
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Politeness in Roasting: When Humour Meets Power
This research examines the use of politeness strategies in stand-up comedy roasts. Specifically, it examines how comedians manage power dynamics and societal standards of politeness while addressing those in authoritative positions in a given society.
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Nigerian humourists have always told risible jokes within myriad pre-colonial satirical acts and now, stand-up comedy. Scholars rarely study the menacing backlash against ostensible “inappropriate jokes” which largely ignores the fact that humour is ...
E. Nwankwọ
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The Distribution of the Nonsensical and the Political Aesthetics of Humour
Humour occupies a prominent position within the aesthetic conditions of contemporary culture, both in term of art and popular media. In this article, I consider how Jacques Rancière’s political aesthetic project can contribute to an assessment of the ...
Nicholas Holm
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The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]
Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G +10 more
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From gluing audience members to their seats and purposefully selling the same ticket to more than one person, artists associated with the Historical Avant-Garde often sought to provoke and antagonise by employing disruption via interruptive processes ...
Campbell, Lee, Jordan, Mel
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