Humour and Social Protest (Paperback)

Humour and social protest: an introduction Marjolein 't Hart; 1. Humour, framing, and resource mobilization. The funny side of globalization: humour and humanity in Zapatista framing Thomas Olesen; 2. 'Cartooning capitalism': radical cartooning and the making of American popular radicalism in the early twentieth century Michael Cohen; 3. Revolution in a comic strip: Gasparazzo and the identity of southern migrants in Turin, 1969?75 Nicola Pizzolato; 4. Satire, protest, and the public sphere. Urban laughter as a 'counter-public' sphere in Augsburg: the case of the city mayor, Jakob Herbrot (1490/95?1564) Christian Kuhn; 5. 'A little discourse pro & con': levelling laughter and its puritan criticism Sammy Basu; 6. Humour as a guerilla tactic: the West German student movement's mockery of the establishment Simon Teune; 7. Carnival laughter and the disarming of the opponent antagonism, absurdity, and the avant-garde: dismantling Soviet oppression through the use of theatrical devices by Poland's 'Orange' Solidarity Movement Lisiunia A. Romanienko; 8. 'A laughter that will bury you all': irony as protest and language as struggle in the Italian 1977 movement Patrick Gun Cuninghame; 9. Queering laughter in the Stockholm pride parade Anna Lundberg; 10. Humour and the building of collective identity in social movements. Bitter memories and burst soap bubbles: irony, parody, and satire in the oral-literary tradition of Finnish working-class youth at the beginning of the twentieth century Kirsti Salmi-Niklander; 11. Jokes in a garment workshop in Hanoi: how does humour foster the perception of community in social movements? Nghiem Lien Huong; 12. Fighting a different enemy: social protests against authority in the Australian imperial force during World War I Nathan Wise; 13. The role of humour in the process of collective identity formation in autonomous social movement groups in contemporary Madrid Cristina Flesher Fominaya; 14. Jokes, social protest, and the wilder society 'doing something silly': the uses of humour by the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903?14 Krista Cowman; 15. Humour in Nazi Germany: resistance and propaganda? The popular desire for an all embracing laughter Patrick Merziger; 16. Humour and protest: jokes under communism Christie Davies.