You must be having a laugh? Humour to transgress.
Dhillon, S. (2022) You must be having a laugh? Humour to transgress. Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives, 11 (1). pp. 42-58. ISSN 2049-2162
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Abstract
This article argues for the encouragement of incongruous humour in Education Studies (within higher education) learning environments. Examining three competing paradigms of humour, and reworking practices from second language learning, it is argued that incongruous humour may facilitate critical interrogation of concepts, policies and practices often taken as supposedly necessary, rather than necessarily contingent. Following the precepts of immanent critique, taken from the Frankfurt School of critical theory, merged with Nietzsche’s advocacy of child-like play, it is argued that incongruous humour may transgress norms in generative, as opposed to compensatory, manner. Eschewing an attempt to create a toolbox of humorous techniques to employ in the Education Studies learning environment, this article presents a philosophical enquiry into the transgressive and critical role of incongruous humour amidst the contemporary neoliberal university apparatus.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2022 Other Business. This is an author accepted manuscript of a paper subsequently published in Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Keywords: | Adorno, comedy, critical theory, Critchley, Freud, humour, immanent critique, Nietzsche. |
| Divisions: | School of Social Science |
| Depositing User: | Sunny Dhillon |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2023 14:58 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2023 15:12 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1028 |
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