Can poverty be funny? The serious use of humour as a strategy of public engagement for global justice

John D. Cameron

Third World Quarterly, 2015, vol. 36, issue 2, 274-290

Abstract: This article examines the use of humour as a strategy to promote increased public engagement in the countries of the global North with issues of global justice. The central argument of the article is that humour can be both an ethical and an effective way of attracting and sustaining public engagement in struggles for global justice. There are risks and limits to the use of humour to represent issues of poverty and injustice but, given low levels of public engagement in these issues in the countries of the global North, humour is a risk worth taking.

Date: 2015
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