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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking down the laughter: an exploration into the linguistic dimensions in stand-up comedy ratings. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Cela H, Veit SV, Wood G.
europepmc   +1 more source

PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

"Share Your Trauma… and Make It Funny": Comedy as Catharsis and Community-Building in LGBTQ+ Mental Wellbeing and Resilience. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Gifford AJ, Beck RJ, McDermott DT, Abbott K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Dr. Anthony Harris on his comedy, career, and the mentorship North Star. [PDF]

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
Harris AD.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Timing structures in live comedy: A matched-sequence approach to mapping performance dynamics. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Pope VC, Stewart R, Chew E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Indonesian Stand-Up Comedy Data Kompas TV

The "Indonesian Stand-Up Comedy Data" that was taken from Kompas TV's YouTube channel offers a thorough archive of user interactions and remarks related to stand-up comedy videos that have been broadcast on the site.
Supriyono, S (via Mendeley Data)
core   +1 more source

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source