Geographies of Humor Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • Geographers have engaged with and examined humor from a variety of subdisciplinary perspectives. Many geographic inquiries draw on Michel Billig’s theoretical engagements with laughter, humor, mockery, and “unlaughter” (see Billig 2005). The geographer Juha Ridanpää, featured throughout this article, has written extensively on humor in geography from geohumanities to geopolitics. Geographers have begun to heed Ridanpää’s request for geographic analyses to seriously engage with humor. Analyses of humor address the ways in which comedy, comics, cartoons, jokes, laughter, and mockery are used to call attention to social or political issues, act as a mechanism of both inclusion and exclusion, and serve as a method for creating spatial meaning or spatial imaginaries. Humor is contextual, spatial, and operates within specific time-spaces. The time-spaces of humor explored by various geographers includes a focus on the momentary or temporally contingent, as well as the cyclical, ongoing or entrenched.

publication date

  • November 29, 2022

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Date in CU Experts

  • October 3, 2023 6:41 AM

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  • Fluri JL

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  • 1

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