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Article: Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression
Title | Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression |
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Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202000 |
Citation | Dialogues in Human Geography, 2021, Epub on 2021-11-17 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This essay examines the political utility of humor using a framework developed in recent geopolitical scholarship read through Jacques Rancière's theorization of the politics of aesthetics and applied to everyday political life in contemporary Mexico City. Geopolitics here offers a unique lens through which to understand the spatiality of humor and its effects on the aesthetic and affective processes by which urban identities are constructed and contested. Building on roughly 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that humor's subversive potential allows for simultaneous or co-constitutive aesthetic effects, such as the simultaneous disruption of political norms and the genesis of a more inclusive spatial imaginary of urban citizenship. This argument extends previous work on humor by emphasizing the complex, mutable, and multifarious nature of humor effects in practice, perhaps most especially in subversive modes. I demonstrate the strategic political value of humor through the exploration of three ethnographically derived examples: an episode of a popular satirical video series, a newly christened popular saint said to protect residents of an historic neighborhood from gentrification, and a humorous tirade against the city's mayor at a local neighborhood meeting. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/312970 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 8.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.650 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Gerlofs, BA | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-23T04:02:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-23T04:02:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Dialogues in Human Geography, 2021, Epub on 2021-11-17 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2043-8206 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/312970 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This essay examines the political utility of humor using a framework developed in recent geopolitical scholarship read through Jacques Rancière's theorization of the politics of aesthetics and applied to everyday political life in contemporary Mexico City. Geopolitics here offers a unique lens through which to understand the spatiality of humor and its effects on the aesthetic and affective processes by which urban identities are constructed and contested. Building on roughly 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that humor's subversive potential allows for simultaneous or co-constitutive aesthetic effects, such as the simultaneous disruption of political norms and the genesis of a more inclusive spatial imaginary of urban citizenship. This argument extends previous work on humor by emphasizing the complex, mutable, and multifarious nature of humor effects in practice, perhaps most especially in subversive modes. I demonstrate the strategic political value of humor through the exploration of three ethnographically derived examples: an episode of a popular satirical video series, a newly christened popular saint said to protect residents of an historic neighborhood from gentrification, and a humorous tirade against the city's mayor at a local neighborhood meeting. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202000 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Dialogues in Human Geography | - |
dc.rights | Gerlofs, BA, Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2021, Epub on 2021-11-17. Copyright © 2021. DOI: 10.1177/20438206211054610 | - |
dc.title | Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Gerlofs, BA: bgerlofs@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Gerlofs, BA=rp02736 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/20438206211054610 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 700004042 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000720957600001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |