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Political Humour, Political Attitudes and Political Behaviour, 2024

Political humour exposes the errors, shortcomings, and misadventures of an individual, institution, or ideology. Such humour seeks to ridicule authoritative figures and systems, and thus presents an especially powerful critique of its subject.
Grasso, M, Queen Mary University of London, Serra, L, London School of Economics and Political Science, Pattie, C, University of Sheffield, Hofer, C, Queen Mary University of London, Sleiman, Y, Queen Mary University of London   +4 more
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Transformative, Iterative or Performative? Conceptualising Patterns of Fossil Fuel Phaseout Leadership

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global leadership in phasing out fossil fuels is an important new frontier in climate governance, yet remains undertheorised within existing scholarly accounts of climate leadership. In this paper, we argue that ‘phaseout leadership’—climate leadership centred on curtailing fossil fuel supply—is a distinct kind of leadership that dominant ...
Freddie Daley, Lukas Slothuus, Daniela Soto‐Hernandez   +2 more
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Comic innocence

The European Journal of Humour Research
In recent years, humour has re-entered the public sphere as a serious and potentially explosive topic of debate, giving rise to social conflicts and controversies.
Dick Zijp
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Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario, Andrey Elster, Iwona Dudek, Katarzyna Jasko, David Webber, Ewa Szumowska, N. Pontus Leander, Maximilian Agostini, Jannis Kreienkamp, Gilda Sensales, Gabriele Di Cicco, Luis C. Jaume, Molly Ellenberg, Dylan Wollschalger, Arie W. Kruglanski   +14 more
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Humour in the Swedish Court : Managing Emotions, Status and Power

, 2018
This chapter analyses humour from an emotion sociological perspective, linking humour to power, status, and group solidarity. It draws from about 300 observed trials and interviews with 43 judges and 41 prosecutors from four Swedish districts courts ...
Bergman Blix, Stina,, Wettergren, Åsa
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Humour versus dignity in the public sphere

The European Journal of Humour Research
Dignity is an important—perhaps even essential—aspect of a functioning public sphere: one where citizens can meet each other as equals and respectful antagonists in the exchange of different perspectives and reasoned opinions.
Nicholas Holm
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Valence Asymmetries of Traits in Dating Contexts

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on traits in dating contexts has typically focused on trait content. We instead examined structural differences in trait frequency and similarity. Prior work suggests that positive information is more frequent, whereas negative information is more diverse and less similar.
Tabea J. Zorn, Christian Unkelbach
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Political Humour in the Social Network Sites

Studies in Media and Communication, 2018
“Social network sites” first began to be used as new tools of political communication during the 2008 Presidential Election in the United States, and their importance became even more apparent during the Arab Spring. In the course of this, the social network sites became a new and widely discussed channel of communication. In addition to its ability to
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Visitor‐I and dual worldmaking: Queer museology between Tuntenhaus and the Schwules Museum

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the visitor‐I as an embodied protocol for analyzing how queer archival exhibitions choreograph perception, affect, and learning, and it uses dual worldmaking as a bounded heuristic to name the relation between lived worldmaking in the Tuntenhaus squat and curatorial worldmaking in the museum, and I argue that the visitor ...
Melike Atmanoğlu
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