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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 The book “It’s only a joke, comrade! Humour, trust and everyday life under Stalin (1928-1941)” is a historiographic study of humour created and used by ordinary Soviet citizens in the pre-war period of the Soviet history. The analysis of multiple sources
Ksenia Shilikhina
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
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Humour and the creative powers of language, or when sentiments turn into centiments
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2016 Humour is part of human communication and can serve as an effective means for making contact, finding a way out of an embarrassing situation, or mitigating different political and social tensions.
Inesa Šeškauskienė +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton +4 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 Internet memes significantly constitute an outlet for extensive popular political participation in election contexts. They instantiate humour and represent political candidates so as to affect voters’ behaviour.
Akin Tella
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao +3 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 This review covers two new books on Chinese humour: Wendy Gan Comic China: Representing Common Ground, 1890-1945; and King-fai Tam and Sharon Wesoky Not Just a Laughing Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humour in China.
Jocelyn Valerie Chey
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Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape.
Dmitriy Myelnikov
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Controlling the Field: Memory, Labor, and Ethics in Oral Histories of Brazilian Human Genetics
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each ...
Rosanna Dent +1 more
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Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2017 This article discusses the late eighteenth-century Dutch periodical Lanterne Magique of Toverlantaern. This political journal is analyzed from the perspective of its sense of humour and its rhetoric.
Jasper Schelstraete
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