Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲

#podcast #satire #humourstudies

#humourstudies

Book cover, a collage of human faces with horns.

"--it is a very non-stereotypical academic book on humour, which despite its incongruity is original and evocative--"
Jan Josl's review on Moral Dimensions of Humour: Essays on Humans and Monsters ▶️ The European Journal of Humour Research europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article...
#humourstudies

Screenshot of article front page. Title: Dark Humour and Invasive Species Storytelling in the Age of Extinction. Authors: Emily Yu Zong and Daisy Bisenieks (Hong Kong Baptist University). Abstract: This essay explores how humour, specifically dark humour, performs an affective politics of opacity in Australian comedies that invokes parody, absurdity and laughter to address the eco-social challenges of invasive species, including rabbits, brumbies, cane toads and red fire ants. The incongruity between jocular feelings and the gravity of extinction highlights humour’s ambivalent potential for violence and subversion. Through an analysis of cartoons and documentaries that bridge conservation science and the Australian cultural imagination, we identify three dimensions of environmental dark humour: (1) it questions human exceptionalism by foregrounding ambiguity, nonhuman agency and assemblage thinking beyond rational control; (2) it performs a cultural diagnosis of colonial legacies, including eco-nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric, hegemonic White masculinity, and regional and cultural stereotypes; (3) it allows a cathartic release of affective dissent and taboo feelings by subverting culturally normative emotional attachments to invasive animals and mainstream environmentalism. By considering humour as a crucial technique for survival and ambiguity, we argue for its potential to inspire self-reflective, multispecies and decolonial modes of storytelling that can ethically account for human and nonhuman otherness in the age of extinction.

Our first cab off the 49.1 rank - Zong and Bisenieks explore dark humour as a crucial storytelling technique in addressing Australia's eco-social challenges.

#EnvironmentalStudies #environment #humour #HumourStudies #OzStudies #OpenAccess

tinyurl.com/5n6pjzvt

We're hoping to delve deeper into the unique relationships of power that shape the narratives emerging from the Global South. (3/3)

Reach out for more details!

#humorstudies #callforpapers #cfp #humourstudies

In 2022, Diego Hoefel, João Capelotti and I met at the International Society for Humor Studies conference. Through conversations that began that year have cumulated in two panels at subsequent ISHS conferences. (1/3)

#humourstudies #humorstudies #humor #globalsouth

CFP: Femimisns and Humour
University of Santiago de Compostela
14-16 May
#HumourStudies
#HumorStudies
#CFP

Image of Delia Casadei’s book “Risible”

Just went to the wonderful book launch of Delia Casadei’s “Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound” & I cannot wait to read it! Rejecting the usual emphasis on causation it engages laughter to challenge what it means to be human

#HumourStudies