Wedderburn Humour, subjectivity and world politics

Everyday articulations of identity at the limits of order
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5070-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between global politics, culture and the everyday. It odders a theoretically rich examination of humour's contribution to the making and unmaking of subjectivity, identity and community at a range of empirical sites.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wedderburn, Alister

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: taking humour seriously

Part I: Humour, subjectivity and world politics
1 ‘A way of operating’: humour, subjectivity and the everyday
2 The parasite

Part II: Parasitic politics
3 Aesthetic parasitism: cartooning the camp
4 Physical parasitism: ACT UP and the HIV/AIDS pandemic
5 Parodic parasitism: clowning and mass protest

Conclusion: parasitic politics and world politics

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alister Wedderburn is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow