| ID | 189993 |
| Title Proper | Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics |
| Other Title Information | warfare by other memes |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Brassett, James ; Browning, Christopher S ; Christopher S Browning and James Brassett |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Relations Vol. 37, No.1; Mar 2023: p.172-179 |
| Journal Source | International Relations Vol: 37 No 1 |
| Key Words | Ontological Security ; Humour ; Anxiety ; Covid ; Anxiety Geopolitics |