The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young
people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit …

The decolonizing turn in the humanities and social sciences calls for scholarship that
analyzes social media practices through the lens of Indigenous epistemologies. In this …

The article analyzes historical monuments as instruments of Russia's attempts to impose its
aesthetic hegemony in the post-Communist world. Drawing on case studies from the Czech …

Part I: Analytical 11 1 The Art of Stand-Up Comedy 13 Ethos and morphology of the stand-up
comedian 13 Art and the intelligence of feeling 17 From ritual to theatre? Stand-up comedy's …

Since 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United
Kingdom's EU Referendum and decision to leave the EU, or Brexit. This book examines the …

One prevailing cultural sensibility of our time is a concern with the state of our mental health,
another is our obligation and desire for a good 'sense of humour'. At present the two are …

The proliferation of political entertainment has internationally produced a wide variety of
news satire formats which blend journalistic conventions with comedic storytelling. This …

This book explores stand-up comedy as a relevant sociological phenomenon from a
contemporary perspective, as both a symptom of neoliberal capitalism and the locus …

This thesis is about how experiences of uncertainty shape the way people share with one
another. It is an ethnographic study of a rural conservancy in north-eastern Namibia, the …

Decolonial and affective turns in language education have brought to light a number of
problematic dichotomies including reason/emotion, personal/professional and …