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The 'Other' laughs back: Humour and resistance in anti-racist comedy [PDF]

, 2010
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 The Author.This article outlines the ‘reverse discourses’ of black, African-American and Afro-Caribbean comedians in the UK and USA ...
Weaver, S
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Humour and Politics: A Discursive Approach to Humour

, 2021
Power has always been a desirable target for humour. It seems politicians are easy to make fun of. In fact, humour and politics are interrelated from times immemorial and they are a favoured field of research in the Human and Social Sciences. The aim of this study is to show the potential of a discursive-enunciative category, the point of view (POV ...
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Performative retrieving of humour for socio-political subversion: stand-up comedy as a form of creative resilience

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022
With the particular focus on the Indian context, this paper attempts to study the genre of stand-up comedy as a form of creative resilience, by applying the theory of Fiske’s popular culture.
Farhan Ahmad, Sohaib Alam, Anmolpreet Kaur   +2 more
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Liquid racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad cartoons [PDF]

, 2010
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 The Author.This article examines reactions to the October 2005 publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper ...
Alibhai-Brown, Y., Ammitzbøll, P., Anon., Bauman, Z., Bauman, Z., Berger, A.A., Billig, M., Bleich, E., Butler, K., Carens, J.H., Dyke, G., Fisk, R., Freud, S., Gatrell, V., Grice, A., Griffin, D., Hansen, R., Hansen, R., Hari, J., Hari, J., Hasan, K., Lawson, D., Malik, N., Modood, T., Modood, T., Olsen, J.M., Raif, S., Rose, F., Sardar, Z., Shamsad, R., Simon Weaver, Stott, A., Verkaik, R., Weaver, S., Westergaard, K., Whittam Smith, A.   +35 more
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#ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned: Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political Internet humour can criticise current political affairs in a developing democracy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, applying a cognitive linguistic theory of
Nihada Delibegovic Dzanic, Sanja Berberovic   +1 more
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Can ethnic humour appreciation be influenced by political reasons? A comparative study of the Basque Country and Calalonia

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013
The aim of this paper is to compare the appreciation of humor that a sample of citizens in Spain has expressed about two different types of ethnic humor produced by two successful television programs from two autonomous communities in Spain: the Basque ...
Carmelo Moreno
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“I get it, but it’s just not funny”: Why humour fails, after all is said and done

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
Failed humour can be explained by communicative gaps, at either the semantic or pragmatic levels, but sometimes, after all is ‘said and done’, people resist humour for purely discursive reasons.
Adrian Hale
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Introduction: Tricksters, humour and activism [PDF]

, 2016
This special issue, entitled ‘The Trickster Activist in Global Humour and Comedy’, investigates the relevance of the concept of the trickster for explaining activist expressions that emanate from comedians, or that appear in comedy and humour more ...
Bassil-Morozow H, Pérez R, Radin P, Raúl Alberto Mora, Simon Weaver, Tannen RS, Turner V, Vizenor G, Vizenor G, Weaver S   +9 more
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‘Workin’ 9 to 9, 24/7’: political humour about Australian politicians and ministerial staffers during the Rudd-Gillard era

History Australia
In the decade before Kate Jenkins’ landmark Set the Standard report into parliamentary workplaces, small screen political humour in Australia challenged the sustainability of industriousness in government work.
Ana Stevenson
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Laughing right

The 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
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