Can people talk together about their practices? Focus groups, humour and the sensitive dynamics of everyday life

AL Browne - Area, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The exploration of everyday social practices related to sustainability often touches on the
most invisible parts of people's everyday lives. Given the multiple cultural forces that govern …

Laughing at power: Humor, transgression, and the politics of refusal in Palestine

L Bhungalia - Environment and Planning C: Politics and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the political and productive work of humor under conditions of
precarity, war, and occupation. Drawing on the case of Palestine but making links to other …

From Russia with lols: Humour, RT, and the legitimation of Russian foreign policy

R Crilley, PN Chatterje-Doody - Global Society, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT is often accused of pedalling
misinformation and claiming legitimacy for nefarious Russian activities. Whilst studies have …

[图书][B] Resilience in the Anthropocene

D Chandler, K Grove, S Wakefield - 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and
the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental …

Thinking laughter beyond humour: Atmospheric refrains and ethical indeterminacies in spaces of care

P Emmerson - Environment and Planning A, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the range of subjects tackled by affective and emotional geographers, laughter has
received relatively little attention. Those who do discuss laughter, do so for the most part in …

What's so funny in Afghanistan?: Jocular geopolitics and the everyday use of humor in spaces of protracted precarity

JL Fluri - Political Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
Afghanistan has been embroiled in several waves of civil and international political conflict
since the late 1970s. Insecurity and uncertainty consume everyday life along with various …

[HTML][HTML] Negotiating adversity with humour: A case study of wildland firefighter women

C Eriksen - Political Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper examines humour as an emergent theme within a long-term study of the
gendered terrain of wildfire management. It analyses a set of semi-structured interviews that …

Laughing about It: Emotional and affective spaces of humour in the geopolitics of migration

JP Van Ramshorst - Geopolitics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Every day, migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras risk their lives attempting to
reach the US. Accordingly, accounts of migration from Central America are often framed by …

[PDF][PDF] Ethnic humor: The role of culture in mirth, comedy, and laughter

S Venkatesan, IK Gopalkrishnan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Humor is the quality of being amusing or comic. Although it is a universal phenomenon,
humor takes different forms and styles at different ages or stages in an individual's or …

Archaeological ethics, video-games, and digital archaeology: a qualitative study on impacts and intersections

LM Dennis - 2019 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Representations of archaeology in media such as films and television have been historically
problematic. Video-games, however, have taken these depictions of archaeology and …