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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian ...
Amy Bywater, Helen Keane
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Humorous political rhetoric in the US
The European Journal of Humour ResearchOver the last decade, humour has undergone a metamorphosis, becoming a rhetorical weapon for—what appears to be—primarily right-wing populist politicians (Beck and Spencer, 2024; Kuipers, 2026).
Beer Prakken
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Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining ‘Bridging’ and ‘Bonding’ in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK [PDF]
, 2012 Social capital has been widely advocated as a way of understanding and building community participation in the interest of health improvement. However, the concept as proposed by Putnam, has been criticised for presenting an overly romanticised account ...
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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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Political Comedy in Aristophanes [PDF]
, 1987 This paper argues that Aristophanic comedy, although it takes contemporary political life as its point of departure, is not political in the sense of aiming to influence politics outside the theatre.
Heath, M.
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Humour and intertextuality in Steve Bell's political cartoons
, 2020 The aim of this paper is to analyse 12 political cartoons published by Steve Bell in the left-wing oriented newspaper The Guardian to show how visual metaphors and metonymies and intertextual references are powerful strategies to present potent ...
M. Pinar
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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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(Tory) anarchy in the UK: The very peculiar practice of tory anarchism [PDF]
, 2009 The idea of ‘Tory Anarchism’ is reasonably well known but largely unanalysed in either popular or academic literature. Tory Anarchism refers to a group of apparently disparate figures in English popular and political culture whose work has, in part ...
Wilkin, P
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‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself’: Humour and the (geo) political limits of vicarious war
Cooperation and ConflictWith Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, vicarious identification (VI) with the Ukrainian fight swept across the West becoming the de facto and normatively prescribed response and a source of status, self-esteem and jouissance for all those ...
James Brassett, Christopher S. Browning
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, 2014 This paper examines the phenomenon of humorous Internet memes within the context of news and political culture, sometimes referred to as LOLitics. LOLitics are a category of digital texts created by ordinary individuals that, like most political humour ...
G. Tay
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