Stripping the Skin off Humour

摘要: Culturally specific hegemonic processes produce authority over meaning and exclude possibilities for authentic ethical encounters. Contingent on a binary relationship between ‘self’ ‘other’, humour holds social tensions in particular ways. Where contemporary understandings of tend to posit as self-evidently desirable (Billig, 2005), there is an absence psychological attention the power relations that constitute “performativity” – or Butler (1993, p. 2) suggests, “the reiterative discourse phenomena it regulates constrains”. This paper draws experience living contradictions produces positions where laughter enacted enable ‘safe’ encounter. If occurs boundaries convention then what does mean complex relationships at hyphen” (Fine & Sirin, 2007; Jones Jenkins, 2008) us/them? Is possible rather than simply maintaining order, may also re-defining contours relations? Could open spaces through recognition multiple competing political discourses make response seeks encounters with ‘other’?