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Laughing right

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research
This article examines how Jordanian political humour has been strategically employed in social media spaces since the 2011 Arab uprisings. It explores how right-wing ideologies have given rise to Jordanian political humour, particularly of a populist ...
Yousef Barahmeh
doaj   +1 more source

The Belarus-Poland migrant crisis

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research
The migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Belarusian borders has resulted in border crossing restrictions and the construction of walls separating Poland and Lithuania from Belarus.
Anastasiya Fiadotava   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Poola poliitiline huumor [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2013
This article is a survey of the most important communicative phenomena in the contemporary Polish political humour. It is also an attempt to describe political humour from a theoretical point of view and to compare it with political jokes from a period ...
Marcin Poprawa
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial: Dis laf fit kill person - An overview of Nigerian humour

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
In Nigeria, in relation to the aforesaid functions, everyday citizens and professional humourists use humour to express their expectations from and disappointments in the socio-political leadership of the country.
Ibukun Filani
doaj   +1 more source

The writerly reporter: Saki as correspondent for The Outlook

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2014
In February of 1914 Saki began to write Potted Parliament (‘potted’ being the English expression for ‘in a nutshell’ or ‘for dummies’) for The Outlook, a London weekly. His commentary contains much satire.
Lorene M. Birden
doaj   +3 more sources

Are Jordanians (still) 'humourless'?

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
This article discusses the stereotypical misrepresentations held about Jordanians being ‘humourless,’ and how had the 1989 political opening affected the production and reception of humour in the country.
Yousef Barahmeh
doaj   +1 more source

Humour in the classroom: Teachers’ perceptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The key questions of this study are whether Greek primary school teachers acknowledge the benefits and risks of involving humour in the classroom, how important they consider it, and to what extent and in which way they incorporate it into their teaching.
Chaniotakis, Nikos
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Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

From the Humour of Science to (pedagogical uses for) the Science of Humour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Science is generally seen as a serious subject, yet scientific discoveries may sometimes have humorous aspects. Joking about science is often used as a coping strategy by the general public, as a means of dealing with feelings of inadequacy about the ...
Chateau - Smith, Carmela
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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