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Browning, Christopher S. and Brassett, James (2023) Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics : warfare by other memes? International Relations . doi:10.1177/00471178231151561 ISSN 0047-1178. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231151561
Abstract
Humour is usually overlooked in analyses of international politics, this despite its growing prevalence and circulation in an increasingly mediatised world, with this neglect also evident in the growing literature on ontological security and anxiety in IR. Humour, though, needs to be taken seriously, crossing as it does the high-low politics divide and performing a variety of functions. In the context of the Covid pandemic we argue that the link between humour and anxiety has been evident in three notable respects: (i) functioning as a (sometimes problematic) form of stress relief at the level of everyday practices of anxiety management, (ii) working to reaffirm biographical narratives of (national) community and status, and (iii) most significantly for IR, as a form of anxiety geopolitics.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JZ International relations P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wit and humor -- Political aspects, Anxiety -- Political aspects, Geopolitics , COVID-19 (Disease) -- Psychological aspects, Political satire | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Relations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0047-1178 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1177/00471178231151561 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Browning, Christopher S. and Brassett, James (2023) Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics : warfare by other memes? International Relations . doi:10.1177/00471178231151561. Copyright © 2023 by James Brassett & Christopher S. Browning. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231151561 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 January 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 January 2023 | ||||||||
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