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7. Far-Right Political Humor in Australia: Culture, Coloniality, and Exclusion

verfasst von : Kurt Sengul, Jordan McSwiney

Erschienen in: Communicating Political Humor in the Media

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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This chapter examines the use of political humor in the communicative and discursive repertoire of the Australian far right. Specifically, this chapter critically analyzes the co-constitutive and mutually informing relationship between far right political humor and Australian culture. Existing research has demonstrated the effective use of humor and comedy in mainstreaming the far right and softening the exclusionary and ideological content of their messages. The purpose of this chapter then is to understand how far-right humor is articulated, shaped, and transformed by the cultural context in which it takes place. Australian culture is shaped by several factors, including its settler colonial reality, its strong multicultural legacy, its proximity to Asia, and cultural, social, and political ties to the United States and United Kingdom. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis and Thematic Analysis of far-right political humor, including memes and animations, this chapter will demonstrate how Australian far-right humor maintains a distinctly “Australian” lens. At the same time, this chapter will argue that far-right political humor works to shape culture by stretching the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior by cueing participants that it is acceptable to express contempt and hostility towards ridiculed out-groups.

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Titel: Far-Right Political Humor in Australia: Culture, Coloniality, and Exclusion
verfasst von: Kurt Sengul
Jordan McSwiney
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Buch: Communicating Political Humor in the Media
Print ISBN: 978-981-9707-25-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9707-26-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0726-3_7